The influence of positive co-experience on teacher-student relationship: The mediating role of emotional bonding

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1041.2023.00726

Abstract

Abstract:

Based on questionnaire survey, field experiment and laboratory experiment, this paper investigates the influence and mechanism of positive co-experience on adolescent teacher-student relationship. The results show that: (1) positive co-experiences positively affect teacher-student relationship, and different types of experiences (recall, imagination, example) are prominent promoting effect; (2) Positive emotional bonding plays a stable mediating role in the influence of positive co-experiences on teacher-student relationship. This study preliminarily proposed the “co-experience relationship effect model”, which promotes the research on the influence mechanism of teacher-student relationship, and has good ecological validity and practical educational value.

Key words: teacher-student relationship, positive co-experience, experience types, emotional bonding

DING Yuting, ZHANG Chang, LI Ranran, DING Wenyu, ZHU Jing, LIU Wei, CHEN Ning. (2023). The influence of positive co-experience on teacher-student relationship: The mediating role of emotional bonding. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 55(5), 726-739.

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variable	1	2	3	4	5	6
1 Gender	1
2 Student cadre	-0.01	1
3 Self-assessment of academic performance	-0.05	-0.20^**	1
4 Positive co-experience	-0.02	-0.19^**	0.19^**	1
5 Positive emotional bonding	0.003	-0.18^**	0.13^**	0.38^**	1
6 Teacher-student relationship	-0.01	-0.17^**	0.30^**	0.44^**	0.57^**	1
M	—	0.49	2.00	1.76	3.12	3.27
SD	—	0.50	0.78	0.51	0.73	0.54

variable	1	2	3	4	5	6
1 Gender	1
2 Student cadre	-0.01	1
3 Self-assessment of academic performance	-0.05	-0.20^**	1
4 Positive co-experience	-0.02	-0.19^**	0.19^**	1
5 Positive emotional bonding	0.003	-0.18^**	0.13^**	0.38^**	1
6 Teacher-student relationship	-0.01	-0.17^**	0.30^**	0.44^**	0.57^**	1
M	—	0.49	2.00	1.76	3.12	3.27
SD	—	0.50	0.78	0.51	0.73	0.54

Regression equation		Fit Index			Significance of regression coefficient
Result variable	Predictive variable	R	R²	F	β	SE	t
positive emotional bonding		0.39	0.15	76.85^***
	Student cadre				-0.16	0.04	-4.18^***
	Positive co-experience				0.51	0.04	13.56^***
Teacher-student relationship		0.66	0.43	133.72^***
	Student cadre				-0.01	0.02	-0.53
	Positive co-experience				0.07	0.07	0.96
	Positive emotional bonding				0.34	0.02	19.74^***
	Self-assessment of academic performance				0.002	0.05	0.04
	Positive co-experience×self-assessment of academic performance				0.08	0.03	2.55^**

Regression equation		Fit Index			Significance of regression coefficient
Result variable	Predictive variable	R	R²	F	β	SE	t
positive emotional bonding		0.39	0.15	76.85^***
	Student cadre				-0.16	0.04	-4.18^***
	Positive co-experience				0.51	0.04	13.56^***
Teacher-student relationship		0.66	0.43	133.72^***
	Student cadre				-0.01	0.02	-0.53
	Positive co-experience				0.07	0.07	0.96
	Positive emotional bonding				0.34	0.02	19.74^***
	Self-assessment of academic performance				0.002	0.05	0.04
	Positive co-experience×self-assessment of academic performance				0.08	0.03	2.55^**

Variable	Sharing and recall group(n = 126)		Simple recall group(n = 110)		Normal group(n = 69)
Variable	Pre-test	Post-test	Pre-test	Post-test	Pre-test	Post-test
Teacher-student relationship	3.80 ± 0.67		3.62 ± 0.70		3.62 ± 0.57
Positive co-experience	2.52 ± 0.64		2.38 ± 0.71		2.42 ± 0.63
Psychological distance	4.43 ± 1.77	4.83 ± 1.55	4.16 ± 1.83	4.46 ± 1.65	4.03 ± 1.34	4.16 ± 1.36
The vignette task		4.17 ± 0.60		3.99 ± 0.58		3.94 ± 0.53
Positive emotional bonding		3.91 ± 0.90		3.79 ± 0.91		3.42 ± 1.18
Negative emotional bonding		2.28 ± 0.96		2.16 ± 0.73		2.32 ± 0.83