The Effect of Criticism on Behavior Improvement Intention of Junior and Senior High School Students:The Effect of Teacher-student Relationship Intimacy
The current study aims to investigate the effect of criticism on teacher-student relationship intimacy and behavior improvement intention of junior and senior high school students,and test the hypothesized mediating effect of teacher-student relationship intimacy between criticism and behavior improvement intention.Results showed that,compared to outcome criticism:(1)For junior high school students,both person criticism and process criti-cism had a destructive effect on students'teacher-student relationship intimacy,which in turn contributed to an de-crease in their behavior improvement intention;(2)For senior high school students,process criticism could posi-tively promote students'perception of the teacher-student relationship intimacy,which had a subsequent positive effect on their behavior improvement intention.Person criticism,however,had a negative effect on students'per-ception of the teacher-student relationship intimacy,which in turn negatively weakened their behavior improvement intention.These findings not only help to deeply understand the psychological mechanism of criticism undermining students to develop good behavior patterns,but also provide an accurate scientific basis for seeking criticism strate-gies for students'behaviors in different academic stages.
criticismteacher-student relationship intimacybehavior improvement intentionjunior high school studentssenior high school students