Journal of Psychological Science ›› 2022, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (2): 323-330.

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Course Experience Improving Social Participation Competencies: A Chain Mediation Analysis

  

  • Received:2021-05-08 Revised:2021-12-18 Online:2022-03-20 Published:2022-12-11

课程学习经历提升青少年社会参与素养:链式中介效应

张畅1,丁玉婷2,程立春3,陈宁2   

  1. 1. 上海师范大学心理系
    2. 上海师范大学
    3. 上海市曙光中学
  • 通讯作者: 陈宁

Abstract: Social participation competencies is a part of core competencies. To develop students’ social participation competencies refers to the project to develop the necessary qualities and key capacities of students in the life-long sense of development required by society. For teenagers, learning characteristic courses which aimed at cultivating social participation competencies is an important way to enhance the attitude and abilities of social participation. And examining the effectiveness of the courses is the key to cultivate social participation competencies. A high school in Shanghai offers characteristic courses of social participation competencies for the whole school which provides a vivid sample for this study. Therefore, this study adopts the school-based research paradigm and takes a high school in Shanghai as a sample to explore the specific mechanism of emotional experience (quality) and public service motivation between the number of characteristic courses studied (quantity) and social participation competencies. A total of 1115 students participated in this survey. There were 528 males and 587 females. They filled out questionnaires regarding course experience, public service motivation and social participation competencies. All of the measures showed good reliability and validity. Among them, the questionnaire of social participation competencies which covered two questionnaires of altruistic behavior and leadership. We analyzed the second order factors, the results showed that the model fitted well (χ2 /df=11.58,NFI=.87, IFI=.88, CFI=.88, RMSEA=.09). Data were analyzed with SPSS 22.0 and PROCESS. Results showed there was no obvious common methods bias using the confirmatory factor analysis. The Process plug-ins was used to analyze the chain mediating effect of emotional experience and public service motivation. The results indicated that (1) there was a statistically significant positive relationship between the number of characteristic courses studied and emotional experience(r = .08, p < .05), the number of characteristic courses studied and public service motivation(r = .10, p < .05), the number of characteristic courses studied and social participation competencies(r = .19, p < .01). Furthermore, there was a statistically significant positive relationship between emotional experience and public service motivation(r = .37, p < .01), emotional experience and social participation competencies(r = .29, p < .01). In addition, there was a statistically significant positive relationship between public service motivation and social participation competencies(r = .68, p < .01). (2) Emotional experience and public service motivation played a fully mediating role in the relationship between the quantity and social participation competencies. The chain mediating effect accounted for 5.72% of the total effect, 95% CI: [.00, .12]. (3) Academic achievement did not play a moderating role in the chain mediation. These findings suggest that learning characteristic courses can improve students’ social participation competencies. At the same time, emotional experience and public service motivation play an important role in this process. The learning of characteristic courses of social participation competencies requires the accumulation of courses and the mobilization of the deep emotional experience, so as to promote the promotion of public service motivation, and provide the cognitive source, emotional source and power source for the formation of social participation competencies.

Key words: social participation competencies, course experience, emotional experience, public service motivation, school-based research

摘要: 运用基于学校的研究范式,以上海市某中学为样本学校,考察社会参与特色课程学习经历对青少年社会参与素养的影响机制。结果显示:(1)修学的特色课程门数(量)、情感体验(质)、公共服务动机和社会参与素养两两显著正相关;(2)情感体验和公共服务动机在课程学习数量和社会参与素养间发挥完全中介作用;(3)未能发现基础课程成绩在链式中介中起调节作用。研究为通过加强课程情感体验进而提升青少年核心素养提供了积极启示。

关键词: 社会参与素养, 课程学习经历, 情感体验, 公共服务动机, 基于学校的研究