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Academic self-efficacy and learning strategies as mediators of the relation between personality and elementary school students' achievement
Published: 17.06.2022.
Mirta Mornar, Iris Marušić and Josip Šabić are the authors of the paper Academic self-efficacy and learning strategies as mediators of the relation between personality and elementary school students' achievement, published in the “European Journal of Psychology of Education“, indexed in WoSCC in Q2 for Educational Psychology (2020) and in Scopus in Q1 for Developmental and Educational Psychology and Education (2021).
In this study, the authors examined the mediating role of academic self-efficacy and motivational learning strategies in the relationship between personality and elementary school students' achievement. The data were collected using a questionnaire that was administered to 511 Croatian eighth-grade students (14 - 15 years old) and analysed using Hayes's PROCESS procedure. The results suggest that conscientious students have higher grade point average (GPA) which can partially be explained with their relatively high academic self-efficacy and avoidance of using self-esteem protecting strategies. The findings also indicate serial mediating effects of academic self-efficacy and self-esteem protecting strategies on the relationship between conscientiousness and GPA. Openness was positively related to GPA, but only indirectly, through academic self-efficacy. Furthermore, the authors found an indirect effect of agreeableness on GPA through less frequent use of strategies aimed at protecting self-esteem. Neuroticism and extraversion showed neither direct nor indirect effects on GPA. Additionally, students with higher academic self-efficacy were less inclined to use self-esteem protecting strategies. However, there was no effect of academic self-efficacy on strategies of promoting learning process. This study adds to the existing literature by specifically examining serial mediation of academic self-efficacy and learning strategies in the relationship between personality and GPA.