How teacher caring behavior affects high school students' English academic performance: the mediating role of academic emotions.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to investigate how teacher-caring behavior (TCB) influences high school students' English academic performance through the mediating role of academic emotions, drawing on self-determination theory and emotion-regulation theory. The participants were 702 high school students (M = 17.48, SD = 0.519) who were selected via random sampling in 4 public high schools, in Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province in 2024. All the participants filled in the structured self-report paper questionnaires on TCB and academic emotion. In addition, students' English academic performance was assessed through a standardized final examination. The data were analyzed with structural equation modeling in SPSS 24.0 and AMOS 24.0. The findings indicate that: TCB directly predicts high school students' Engl

SUBMITTER: Shao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12173258 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature