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Front. Psychol.
Sec. Educational Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1416783
This article is part of the Research Topic Students' Social and Emotional Skills in Educational Settings View all 13 articles

The Relationship Between Teacher-Student Relationships and Academic Grades Among Chinese Rural High School Students: The Moderating Role of Mental Health Symptoms and the Conditional Moderating Effect of Academic Resilience

Provisionally accepted
Xiaohui Chen Xiaohui Chen 1,2*Richard P. Bailey Richard P. Bailey 1,2*Xiaojiao Yin Xiaojiao Yin 2Nadia Samsudin Nadia Samsudin 2
  • 1 Faculty of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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    Objective: This study examines the relationship between Teacher-Student Relationships and academic grades among Chinese rural high school students, focusing on the moderating role of mental health symptoms and the conditional moderating effect of academic resilience.Method: A moderated moderation analysis was conducted via Mplus on data collected from a sample of rural Chinese high school students. SEM was used to test the direct and interactive effects of these variables on academic outcomes.Results: Teacher-Student Relationships were found to have a significant positive association with students' academic grades. Academic resilience plays a conditional moderating role, with students who have higher levels of resilience better able to maintain their academic performance, even when facing psychological distress. This suggests that resilience can buffer the impact of challenges, enhancing the positive influence of TSRs on academic outcomes.

    Keywords: educational psychology, Psychosocial Factors in Learning, Quality education, Education environment, Mental Well-being 1. Introduction Font: (Default) Times New Roman

    Received: 13 Apr 2024; Accepted: 07 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Chen, Bailey, Yin and Samsudin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Xiaohui Chen, Faculty of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    Richard P. Bailey, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, 56000, Malaysia

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