The Relationship between Teacher Autonomy Support and Subject Selection Maturity of Senior High School Students:The Mediating Effect of Career Exploration and The Moderating Effect of Self-determination Motivation
For high school students,subject selection is an important part of their career process.Subject selection maturity is an impor-tant evaluation factor for students throughout the entire subject selection decision-making process.As the main guide of educational ac-tivities,teacher autonomy support has an important impact on the subject selection of high school students.The career exploration con-ducted by high school students during the subject selection process,as well as the influence of their autonomous decision-making moti-vation,cannot be ignored.Therefore,using a questionnaire method,845 high school students were selected as participants to investigate the mediating role of career exploration in the relationship between teacher autonomy support and high school student subject selection maturity,as well as the moderating role of self-determination motivation in this mediating process.The results indicate that:(1)teacher autonomy significantly positively predicts the maturity of subject selection;(2)Career exploration plays a partial mediating role between teacher autonomy support and subject maturity;(3)The independent choice motivation did not play a moderating role in the first half of the mediating model of the influence of teacher's independent support on subject selection maturity through career exploration;The con-trol of choice motivation plays a negative moderating role in the first half of the mediating model that influences subject selection maturi-ty through career exploration in teacher autonomy support.In summary,improving the maturity of high school students in subject selec-tion can be achieved by enhancing teacher autonomy support to create a more democratic atmosphere for subject selection;Enhance the career exploration level of high school students to promote their own better understanding of relevant information;Reducing control over choice motivation allows high school students to choose subjects more based on their own interests and other means.
senior high school studentssubject selection maturityteacher autonomy supportcareer explorationself-determination motivation