A study on mindful agency's influence on college students' engagement with online teaching: The mediating roles of e-learning self-efficacy and self-regulation

• Published in: Acta psychologica 2024-03, Vol.243, p.104146-104146, Article 104146
• Main Author: Dai, Xinyi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Identification with online teaching; Mindful agency; Online self-disciplined learning; Self-efficacy in e-learning
• ISSN: 0001-6918; 1873-6297
• DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104146

A total of 379 college students from 22 classes in 3 universities in Nanjing, who received online teaching, were selected as the participants in this study. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the influence mechanism of mindful agency on their identification by using the Mindful Agency Scale for College Students, the Scale for Identification of College Students with Online Teaching, the Online Learning Self-Efficacy Scale for Adult Learners, and the Questionnaire on Online Self-Disciplined Learning for College Students, which were proven effective in previous studies. In all these studies, the coefficients of Cronbach's α are all above 85. The study's findings demonstrated that, in addition to directly and favorably predicting identification with online teaching, mindful agency also had an impact on identification through the mediating effects of self-efficacy in online learning and self-disciplined learning online. By identifying the two intermediary pathways and the orderly chain structure pathways in which mindful agency influences college students' identification with online teaching, this study contributes to the theoretical research on mindfulness in online teaching contexts, the expansion of empirical research on the impact of mindful agency on identification with online teaching, and the development of practical reference materials for improving identification with online teaching.