An integrated model of school students' academic achievement and life satisfaction. Linking soft skills, extracurricular activities, self-regulated learning, motivation, and emotions.

ABSTRACT: The role of soft skills at school is still debated, but they have emerged as important factors for students' academic achievement and life satisfaction. This study focuses on the combined influence of soft skills (in terms of adaptability, curiosity, leadership, initiative, perseverance, and social awareness), extracurricular activities, achievement emotions, self-regulated learning, motivation, and cognitive abilities on academic achievement and life satisfaction. A sample of 603 students (5th to 12th graders) participated in the study. The results of a Bayesian path analysis based on meta-analytical priors show that soft skills were (i) directly positively associated with students' achievement emotions, self-regulated learning, motivation, and life satisfaction and (ii) indirectly relate

SUBMITTER: Feraco T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8795749 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature