ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Educational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1503473
This article is part of the Research TopicPositive Higher Education: Empowering Students through Learning and WellbeingView all 14 articles
The Relationship Between Parental Autonomy Support, Teacher Autonomy Support, Peer Support, and University Students' Academic Engagement: The Mediating Roles of Basic Psychological Needs and Autonomous Motivation
Provisionally accepted
- 1Youjiang Medical University for Nationalities, Baise, China
- 2Universiti Teknologi MARA Puncak Alam, Selangor, Selangor, Malaysia
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Objective: This study, based on Ecological Systems Theory and Self-Determination Theory, explores the relationships between parental autonomy support, teacher autonomy support, peer support, and university students' academic engagement from a positive psychology perspective, as well as the mediating roles of basic psychological needs and autonomous motivation.Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted with 416 university students from four universities in Guangxi, using the Academic Engagement Scale, Parental
Keywords: Ecological Systems Theory, self-determination theory, environmental factors, Individual factors, Academic engagement, PLS-SEM
Received: 29 Sep 2024; Accepted: 14 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Li, Sueb and Said Hashim. 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: Rosilawati Sueb, Universiti Teknologi MARA Puncak Alam, Selangor, 42300, Selangor, Malaysia
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