Does Social Competence Function as a Mediator in the Association Between a Negative Student-Student Relationship and Achievement Motivation in Adolescent Students?

作者：Raufelder Diana^*; Buenger Sabine

来源：Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht, 2014, 61(4): 302-316.

DOI：10.2378/peu2014.art24d

• Student-student relationship
• social competence
• achievement motivation
• adolescence
• gender

Besides knowledge transfer, schools have the educational duty to enhance students' social competence, which is essential in the development of key skills, such as team- and communication-abilities and it prevents risk behavior, such as aggression and delinquency. Beyond that, the present study examined whether social competence additionally functions as a mediator in the association between a negative student-student relationship and achievement motivation. 1088 (M-Age = 13.7; SD = .53) 7th and 8th grade students from high achieving (Gymnasium) and low achieving (Oberschule) schools in Brandenburg (Germany) answered questionnaires concerning their perception of social competence, negative student-student relationship, and achievement motivation. Self-report data was used to test our mediation model by using multigroup structural equation modeling (MGSEM) to identify possible gender or schooltype differences. The results suggest that promoting social competence could be an effective starting point for prevention and intervention programs, if gender- and schooltype-specific differences are considered.

• 出版日期2014