Relationship between Gratitude and Academic Engagement among Impoverished Undergraduates with Financial Aid:The Mediating Effect of Belief in a Just World
To explore the relationships between gratitude,belief in a just world and academic engagement among impoverished undergraduates with financial aid,a sample of 767 college students who received National Grants from Henan and Hubei prov-inces was surveyed with Gratitude Questionnaire-6,Belief in a Just World Scale,and Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-Student.The results found that:(1)Correlation analysis showed that gratitude,belief in a just world,and academic engage-ment were positively related to each other;(2)Mediation modeling indicated that belief in a just world mediated the relationship between gratitude and academic engagement.The results show that gratitude not only directly affects academic engagement,but also indirectly affected it through the mediator of belief in a just world.
gratitudeacademic engagementbelief in a just worldpoverty
国家科技期刊平台
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