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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Educational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1476840

The Effect of Sleep Quality on Learning Engagement of Junior High School Students: The Moderating Role of Mental Health

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    A good quality of sleep is not only an important guarantee for students' academic life, but also an important founding condition for their physical and mental health development. The study aims to explore the relationship between sleep quality and students' learning engagement, and to deeply analyze the moderating role played by mental health. The study surveyed 186 junior high school students, and the results show that: (1) The main effect of sleep quality on learning engagement is significant (β=0.476, t=1.829, p<0.001), specifically, the better the sleep quality, the higher the students' learning engagement. (2) The influence of sleep quality on learning engagement is moderated by mental health (β=-0.850, t=-2.652, p=0.006), that is to say, the influence of sleep quality on learning engagement is more significant for students with poor mental health, and mentally healthy students can effectively alleviate the negative impact of sleep problems on their learning engagement. The research results provide empirical evidence for schools, families, and policy makers to improve students' academic achievement and mental health.

    Keywords: sleep quality, Learning engagement, Mental Health, Influencing mechanism, regulatory effect

    Received: 06 Aug 2024; Accepted: 13 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Dang, 牛, Du and Xu. 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: Zhenguo Xu, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China

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