In order to investigate the effect of peer rejection on learning engagement in university students,to explore the role of exec-utive function and anxiety in it,and the intervention effect of self-affirmation.Study 1 used the cluster sampling method to investigate the chain mediating effect of executive function and anxiety on adolescent peer rejection and learning engagement.Study 2 used the recall paradigm to create peer exclusion-acceptance situations,self-affirmation interventions,and measured learning engagement levels through learning context projection,to examine the effects of peer rejection on learning engagement and the effects of self-affirmation interven-tions.Results shows peer rejection can negatively predict university students'learning input,and executive function and anxiety play a chain mediating role in it.Self-affirmation interventions were effective in regulating the impact of peer rejection on learning engagement.Peer rejection is one of the risk factors for reducing learning engagement,and executive function and self-affirmation interventions can ef-fectively buffer the negative impact of peer rejection on learning engagement.
university studentspeer rejectionlearning engagementexecutive functionself-esteemself-affirmation