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- Title
The Mediating Role of Self-Exertion on the Effects of Effort on Learning Virtues and Emotional Distress in Academic Failure in a Confucian Context.
- Authors
Bih-Jen Fwu; Shun-Wen Chen; Chih-Fen Wei; Hsiou-Huai Wang
- Abstract
Previous studies have found that in East Asian Confucian societies, hardworking students are often trapped in a dilemma of enjoying a positive moral image while suffering from emotional distress due to academic failure. This study intends to further explore whether the cultural-specific belief in self-exertion acts as a psychological mechanism to lessen these students' negative emotions. A group of 288 college students in Taiwan were administered a questionnaire to record their responses to past academic failures. The results from structural equation modeling showed that selfexertion functioned as a mediator between the effects of effort on learning virtues and emotional distress. Self-exertion to fulfill one's duty to oneself positively mediated the effect of effort on learning virtues, whereas self-exertion to fulfill one's duty to one's parents negatively mediated the effect of effort on emotional distress. Theoretical and cultural implications are further discussed.
- Subjects
MEDIATED learning experience; LIABILITY for emotional distress; PERSONAL injuries (Law); SCHOOL failure; CONFUCIAN education; MENTAL health of students
- Publication
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017, Vol 7, p1
- ISSN
1664-1078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02047