Relationship quality in higher education and the interplay with student engagement and loyalty.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To date, studies that have investigated the bonds between students and their institution have emphasized the importance of student-staff relationships. Measuring the quality of those relationships (i.e., relationship quality) appears to help with investigating the relational ties students have with their higher education institutions. Growing interest has arisen in further investigating relationship quality in higher education, as it might predict students' involvement with the institution (e.g., student engagement and student loyalty). So far, most studies have used a cross-sectional design, so that causality could not be determined.

Aims

The aim of this longitudinal study was twofold. First, we investigated the temporal ordering of the relation between the relat

SUBMITTER: Snijders I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9292412 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature