Social Psychology of Education

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Psychology of Education is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The roles of impostorism and academic help-seeking in undergraduate students’ sense of belonging and college completion intention138
Towards education with a shared language: language learning strategies adopted by newly arrived immigrant and refugee adolescents in Danish schools57
Correction: Growth mindset of socioeconomic status boosts academic-related outcomes52
School connection through engagement associated with grade scores and emotions of adolescents: four factors to build engagement in schools52
How do impostor feelings and general self-efficacy co-explain students’ test-anxiety and academic achievements: The preceding role of maternal psychological control44
Students as the source of demotivation for teachers: A case study of Vietnamese university EFL teachers36
Social participation in secondary school: The relation to teacher-student interaction, student characteristics and class-related variables34
Understanding Filipino students’ achievement in PISA: The roles of personal characteristics, proximal processes, and social contexts33
A multilevel study of peer victimization and its associations with teacher support and well-functioning class climate33
Ethnic discrimination in secondary education: Does the solution lie in multicultural education and the ethnic school composition?30
Teachers’ intervention strategies for handling hate-speech incidents in schools29
Assumptions of immigration status: A moderated mediation analysis of racial microaggressions and internalization impacting latinx and asian college students26
Pair learning in virtual laboratories: implications for engagement, self-efficacy, and anxiety24
Social overload and fear of negative evaluation mediate the effect of neuroticism on classroom disruptions that predicts occupational problems in teachers over two years21
The social contagion of job satisfaction from principals to teachers: Implications from TALIS20
Soft skills in high schools: integrating self-regulated learning and social, emotional, and behavioral skills frameworks19
Correction to: Social competencies, classroom relationships, and academic engagement: A latent change score modeling approach among lower secondary school students19
Identifying core beliefs of an intercultural educator: How polyculturalism and group malleability beliefs shape teachers’ pedagogical thinking and practice19
Implicit assumptions of (prospective) music school teachers about musically gifted students19
Peer victimization and anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic: disentangling between and within person effects19
Using personality traits to predict correspondence between self-perception of academic competence and achievement: A latent profile analysis study19
Social competencies, classroom relationships, and academic engagement: A latent change score modeling approach among lower secondary school students18
The mediation of organizational commitment between collective teacher efficacy and work engagement17
Correction: The role of empathy in support for inclusive education17
Number of books at home as an indicator of socioeconomic status: Examining its extensions and their incremental validity for academic achievement17
The role of student and customer social identification on university students’ learning approaches and psychological well-being17
Teacher teams: A safe place to work on creating and maintaining a positive school climate16
Motivational and personality variables distinguish academic underachievers from high achievers, low achievers, and overachievers16
Ethnic hierarchies among pupils in Slovenia: Their ethnic belonging matters15
School socioeconomic desegregation and student academic performance: evidence from a longitudinal study on middle school students in China15
Grade 12 students’ perceptions of educational tracks in Flanders14
Correction to: Adolescent wellbeing: Relative contributions of social emotional learning and microsystem supports14
Teachers’ mindset meaning system: achievement goals, beliefs and classroom practices14
The role of perceived ingroup norms about intergroup contact in intergroup friendship effects14
Belonging matters: a scoping review of survey instruments—prevalent measures and omissions13
Understanding emotion-regulation strategies among foreign language teachers in response to classroom stressors: Findings from a Q methodology study13
Gender stereotypes: implicit threat to performance or boost for motivational aspects in primary school?13
Seeking congruity for communal and agentic goals: a longitudinal examination of U.S. college women’s persistence in STEM13
Teacher exhaustion: The effects of disruptive student behaviors, victimization by workplace bullying, and social support from colleagues13
Teachers' perception of aggressive student behavior through the lens of chronic worry and resignation, and its association with psychophysiological stress: An observational study13
Factors related to academic self-handicapping in Black students attending a predominantly White University13
Academic stereotype threat and engagement of higher vocational students: A moderated mediation model13
Trajectories of implicit theories of intelligence and emotional intelligence in secondary school13
Do students’ mindsets about emotional intelligence change over secondary school? Developmental paths in adolescence12
The effect of teacher multicultural attitudes on self-efficacy and wellbeing at work12
Coping with diversity in classrooms: predicting Intercultural Self-Efficacy in mandatory education teachers12
Correction to: Everything right or nothing wrong? Regulatory fit effects in an e-learning context12
How Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is related to Differentiated Instruction (DI): The mediation role of growth mindset and teachers’ practices factors12
Trajectories of unrealistic optimism in grade expectation: A latent growth mixture model11
Belongingness moderates student mindsets’ influence among first-generation, community college students of color11
Gender gap in reading achievement: the mediating role of metacognitive strategies and reading-related attitudes11
Contribution of social support to home-quarantined Chinese college students’ well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating role of online learning self-efficacy and moderating role of anxiety11
Perceived teacher unfairness and school bullying victimization of senior-grade pupils: The mediating effect and gender difference of the sense of school belonging11
When boys and girls make their first career decisions: Exploring the role of gender and field in high school major choice11
Sensitive minds, supportive environments: A gateway to marginality and dropout intentions, moderated by teacher-student relationships10
Using fiction to improve intergroup attitudes: Testing indirect contact interventions in a school context10
Autonomy support and students’ perceived social-emotional competence: predicting parent-reported social-emotional skills10
Which STEM relationships promote science identities, attitudes, and social belonging? A longitudinal investigation with high school students from underrepresented groups10
Uncovering the role of teacher educators in the reduction of inequalities in education: A critical discourse analysis10
Motivating and demotivating teaching styles: A comparison among planned, adopted, and perceived9
Testing the effect of agreement and discrepancy between teachers’ and students’ reported interpersonal behaviors on students’ motivation: a response surface analysis9
Socio-emotional experiences of primary school students: Relations to teachers’ underestimation, overestimation, or accurate judgment of their cognitive ability9
Achievement goals, self-efficacy, and psychological flexibility as antecedent of study engagement9
How implicit racial bias and concern about appearing racist shape K-12 teachers’ race talk with students8
Individual and classroom-level associations of within classroom friendships, friendship quality and a sense of peer community on bullying victimization8
The homophily and centrality of LGBQ youth: A new story?8
Chat or cheat? Academic dishonesty, risk perceptions, and ChatGPT usage in higher education students8
Structural relationships between classroom emotional climate, teacher–student interpersonal relationships and students’ attitudes to STEM8
Understanding academic expectations: the influence of students’ academic emotions on academic expectations and the mediational role of perceived teacher competence and warmth8
Bullies, victims, and meanies: the role of child and classmate social and emotional competencies8
Resilience as a professional competence: a new way towards healthy teachers?8
Teacher expectations and their relations with primary school students’ achievement, self-concept, and anxiety in mathematics8
Stressors and vulnerability during upper secondary school: subjective experiences of classroom climate and coping beliefs as predicting factors of school stress in Norway8
Examining the association between social context and disengagement: Individual and classroom factors in two samples of at-risk students8
The impact of fear of losing out (FoLO) on college students’ performance goal orientations and learning strategies in Singapore8
Knowledge and comfort predict teaching about sexism in school teachers8
How good do you think you are with computers? The link between teachers’ perceived digital literacy, occupational efficacy, and psychological distress7
Do growth mindsets reduce the big-fish-little-pond effect?7
Automatic and controlled information processing in the context of students’ ethnic background and social status: An eye-tracking study7
Minoritized pupils’ reflections on their student-teacher relationship in mainstream and supplementary schools7
Social identity threat is related to ethnic minority adolescents’ social approach motivation towards classmates via reduced sense of belonging7
Instructor mindset beliefs and behaviors: How do students and instructors perceive them?7
Detecting the relationships of teacher’s growth mindset, grit, and receptivity in curriculum reform responding to PISA key-competency assessment7
Goal complexes: Integrating achievement goals as standards and self-attributed motives as reasons underlying goal pursuit7
The need for social recognition: the impact of teachers’ professional honor on their intention to move to urban schools in rural China7
Mind the gap: Early-career teachers’ level of preparedness, professional development, working conditions, and feelings of distress7
Discourses about grades and competency-based evaluation: Exploring communicative and situated meanings at an Italian high school7
Cyberbullying and cyberstalking in higher education: policies and practices for supporting students and university staff7
Social-emotional need satisfaction, prosocial motivation, and students’ positive behavioral and well-being outcomes7
Misperceptions of progress towards racial equality in educational attainment and their implications for policy preferences6
Mathematics self-concept moderates the relation between cognitive functions and mathematical skills in primary school children6
Efficacy of imagined contact intervention with children and adolescents in reducing negative intergroup outcomes: A systematic review6
The role of teachers in guiding student peer interactions: conceptions of pre-service teachers6
“Black sheep”—physical, social, and behavioral diversity as a barrier to STEM educational choice6
The role of student background characteristics and sense of belonging in the development of peer networks at the transition to higher education6
‘At first I was overwhelmed, but then—I have to say—I did almost enjoy it’. Psychological needs satisfaction and vitality of student teachers during the first Covid-19 lockdown6
Do teachers’ cultural beliefs matter for students’ school adaptation? A multilevel analysis of students’ academic achievement and psychological school adjustment6
Exploring the mediating role of emotion regulation on the relationship between teachers’ resilience and their perceived stress6
Individualism and collectivism’s impact on students’ academic helping interactions: an integrative review6
Enhancing interaction quality in interdisciplinary group work: The impact of student motivation and teacher-initiated diversity climate6
Social media use and academic outcomes: the mediating role of grit6
Mapping routes from teacher identity to TPACK: mediating roles of technostress, belief and competency6
Friends as a language learning resource in multilingual primary school classrooms6
Diversifying STEM: Communal goal mismatch predicts student intentions6
Is respect for teachers beneficial or harmful to students? The predictive effects of dual dimensions of respect-for-teachers on teacher-student relationships and academic engagement in a Confucian cul6
Children’s perceived parental control and academic achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Errors: Springboard for learning or tool for evaluation? Ambivalence in teachers’ error-related beliefs and practices6
Does open classroom climate uniformly benefit students’ civic outcomes? The moderating role of students’ perceptions of teacher–student relationships6
Reluctance to speak in college classrooms: academic causes and consequences6
Nice, but not smart? Attributional backlash from displaying prosocial behavior in the classroom6
The relationship between teachers' homework feedback, students' homework emotions, and academic self-esteem: A multi-group analysis of gender differences5
The role of empathy in support for inclusive education5
Teacher well-being and student achievement: A multilevel analysis5
Life satisfaction, relatedness, and study engagement in the upper secondary school transition: the function of social support5
Understanding motivation for implementing cooperative learning methods: a value-based approach5
Linking teacher empathy to multicultural teaching competence: The mediating role of multicultural beliefs5
Adding the culturally specific ingredients: the Chinese and American models of learning persistence, including learning beliefs, choice and the internalization of learning motivation5
Collective teacher culture and school goal structure: Associations with teacher self-efficacy and engagement5
School principals’ social support and teachers’ basic need satisfaction: The mediating role of job demands and job resources5
Pre-service teachers’ experiences with students impacted by trauma in the school setting5
The relationships between teacher presenteeism, emotional demands, trust in principal and emotional exhaustion: A multilevel moderated mediated analysis5
Unpacking classroom goal structures based on students’ own words5
Achievement emotions predict transfer student academic success5
Teacher support for basic needs is associated with socio-emotional skills: a self-determination theory perspective5
Why do teachers intervene? understanding the relationship between subjective norms and teachers’ intervention in real-life bullying incidents5
Assessing the association of adverse childhood events with academic performance in the U.S. adolescent population: a secondary data analysis5
An examination of the self-system model of motivational development (SSMMD) from middle childhood through middle adolescence in the school context4
Examining the effects of socioeconomic status indicators on the association between growth mindset and sense of belonging to school4
A critical review of positive education: challenges and limitations4
Comparison in the classroom: motivation for academic social comparison predicts academic performance4
What you think is what you feel: Immigration-related value beliefs predict emotional exhaustion in pre-service teachers4
Defending behavior in school bullying: The role of empathic self-efficacy, social preference, and student-teacher relationship4
Identifying core features and barriers in the actualization of growth mindset pedagogy in classrooms4
Changing students’ explicit and implicit attitudes toward peers with disabilities: Effects of a curriculum-based intervention programme4
Teaching characteristics and students’ achievement emotions in rural and urban areas: a multi-group analysis4
Teacher emotional exhaustion: The synergistic roles of self-efficacy and student–teacher relationships4
Does parental support amplify growth mindset predictions for student achievement and persistence? Cross-cultural findings from 76 countries/regions4
Parental evaluation of teachers’ competences and characteristics during COVID-19 pandemic homeschooling4
Appearing smart, confident and motivated: a lens model approach to judgment accuracy in an educational setting4
Students’ thoughts about dropping out: Sociodemographic factors and the role of academic help-seeking4
Job load, job stress, and job exhaustion among Chinese junior middle school teachers: Job satisfaction as a mediator and teacher’s role as a moderator4
Latent transition analysis of learning weariness in Chinese junior high school students: family functioning and classmate relationships as predictors4
Changing preservice teacher students’ stereotypes and attitudes and reducing judgment biases concerning students of different family backgrounds: Effects of a short intervention4
Peer support, teacher support, and activity value in a STEAM contest: the role of helicopter parenting in learning4
University STEM instructors with stronger failure-as-debilitating mindsets are perceived to engage in fewer mastery-oriented teaching Practices by their students: An exploratory study4
Similarities in mindset between adolescents’ friends and cooperation partners4
Growth mindset in Chinese culture: A meta-analysis4
Correction: Bias awareness in teachers: A German adaptation of the bias awareness scale for teachers4
Teachers’ prosociality and well-being at work: The mediating role of teacher engagement in family–school partnerships4
The indirect association between moral disengagement and bystander behaviors in school bullying through motivation: Structural equation modelling and mediation analysis4
Teachers’ self-efficacy in team teaching practices4
Trajectories of scholastic well-being: The effect of achievement emotions and instructional quality in the first year of secondary school (fifth grade)4
What is ‘teacher awareness’ and can teachers use it to overcome their expectation bias?– a thematic analysis of research4
Bidirectional longitudinal relationships between beliefs about adversity, teacher–student relationships and academic engagement of left behind children4
How values relate to student achievement in upper secondary education: Integrating interdisciplinary perspectives on value beliefs in the school context4
Correction to: Perceived teacher procedural justice and aggressive behaviors among Chinese primary students: The mediating roles of negative evaluation of school rules and malicious envy4
Daily feedback suspicion and ability-uncertainty among junior researchers in competitive work climates in STEM4
Exploring a two-factor structure of stress mindsets in academic contexts: their connections with emotional and behavioral outcomes4
Teachers’ assessment of self-regulated learning: Linking professional competences, assessment practices, and judgment accuracy3
The influence of peers’ parental education on adolescent academic performance: the mediating role of educational aspirations3
Does an immigrant teacher help immigrant students cope with negative stereotypes? Preservice teachers' and school students' perceptions of teacher bias and motivational support, as well as stereotype 3
Social rejection from the perspective of latency-age children: Moral failing or normative phenomenon?3
Escalation effects in teacher perceptions of classroom behavior in a U.S. context: The intersecting roles of student race, gender, and behavior severity3
Predictors of procrastination in first-year university students: role of achievement goals and learning strategies3
How do others think about my group? Adolescents’ meta-stereotypes about Turkish- and German-origin students’ subject-related German and general school competence3
Bully-victims in bullying and cyberbullying: An analysis of school-level risk factors3
Detrimental effects of instructors’ fixed mindsets on students’ anticipated motivation and emotions in secondary and higher education3
Has COVID-19 changed pre-service teachers perceptions of the profession? Yes, but not necessarily in bad ways3
Dual pathway of prejudice in education: teachers’ paternalistic and hostile prejudice affecting minority girls3
Investigating the invariance of non-cognitive skills in countries with different immigration policies: a psychometric network approach3
The structure of psychosocial factors in academic success: A gaussian graphical model approach3
Does need satisfaction reflect positive needs-supplies fit or misfit? A new look at autonomy-supportive contexts using cubic response surface analysis3
Students as victims of bullying by teachers: Longitudinal antecedents and consequences3
Can students with special educational needs overcome the “success” expectations?3
Recognizing the diversity in how students define belonging: evidence of differing conceptualizations, including as a function of students’ gender and socioeconomic background3
Rates and Types of Student Aggression against Teachers: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Elementary, Middle, and High Schools3
It’s a problem, but not mine: Exploring bias-related message acceptance among teachers3
Teachers’ sentiment about physical appearance of primary school students: Associations with student–teacher relationship quality and student popularity among classroom peers3
Correction: Moral disengagement in primary school children involved in cyberbullying, bullying, and cybergossip3
The role of ethnic origin and situational information in teachers’ reactions to social exclusion among students3
Math self-efficacy or anxiety? The role of emotional and motivational contribution in math performance3
The associations of procrastination with preservice teachers’ stress and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic: A three-wave longitudinal investigation3
Teachers’ experiences and recommendations to support refugee students exposed to trauma3
Applying debriefings in the context of higher education: How joint reflection fosters students’ collaborative problem solving3
Competitive and cooperative practices in education: How teachers’ beliefs in school meritocracy are related to their daily practices with students3
Prospective associations between peer support, academic competence, and anxiety in college students3
Understanding teacher professional intentions: the role of teacher psychological resources, appraisals, and job satisfaction3
School middle leaders’ personality traits and collective teachers’ efficacy: the moderating role of resource support3
Experiences and support needs of teachers implementing trauma-informed practice for students with intellectual disability3
Adjustment and acceptance beliefs in achievement settings: Implications for student wellbeing2
The lack of fit framework in school: girls’ perceived misfit and its consequences in a male-stereotyped discipline2
Prejudice and need for relatedness expressed in the narratives of Finnish Roma early school leavers: A multi-case study2
Framing the theoretical perspectives on emotion regulation: A Habermasian typology and its implications for educational research2
Determinants of academic achievement from the middle to secondary school education: A systematic review2
Fixed is not the opposite of growth: Item keying matters for measuring mindsets2
Negative teacher feedback toward students decreases the probability of empathic classmates making a sociometric choice2
Shared goals and values in the teaching profession, job satisfaction and motivation to leave the teaching profession: The mediating role of psychological need satisfaction2
Implicit gender-science stereotypes and college-major intentions of italian adolescents2
Intertwining self-efficacy, basic psychological need satisfaction, and emotions in higher education teaching: A micro-longitudinal study2
“Failure-to-warn” when giving advice to students? No evidence for an ethnic bias among teacher students in Germany2
Correction: The need for social recognition: the impact of teachers’ professional honor on their intention to move to urban schools in rural China2
Professional commitment and satisfaction of teachers in head start within a systemically marginalized community: associations with perceived psychological distress and physical safety2
Addressing racial misinformation at school: a psycho-social intervention aimed at reducing ethnic moral disengagement in adolescents2
Learning how to learn: Student voices on the function and utility of a student-engaged design intervention in a rural middle school2
Impostorism: prevalence and its relationships with mental health, burnout, dropout consideration, and achievement among graduate women in STEM2
Academic self-efficacy, self-esteem, and grit in higher online education: Consistency of interests predicts academic success2
A longitudinal experiment examining the joint effects of social, dimensional, and temporal comparisons on self- and external assessments of students’ abilities2
Self-doubt and self-regulation: A systematic literature review of the factors affecting academic cheating in online learning environments2
The moderating effect of perceived social support from friends in the associations between school-based racial discrimination and academic outcomes among Latinx adolescents2
What students need from their teacher: Need satisfaction as mediator of the association between perceived cognitive adaptive support, and student outcomes2
Collective teacher culture: exploring an elusive construct and its relations with teacher autonomy, belonging, and job satisfaction2
Assessing class cohesion in primary and secondary education: Development and preliminary validation of the class cohesion questionnaire (CCQ)2
Relations among perceived school context-related factors, cyberbullying, and school adjustment: An examination between native and immigrant students in elementary and secondary education2
Intersectional perspectives on the university belonging of international STEM students2
Do educational aspirations and expectations matter in improving school achievement?2
“You're a man, so you're out of place”: reflexive thematic analysis of focus group with Italian teachers and educators2
Newly qualified teachers in the eyes of principals: Moving beyond deficit perspectives2
Boys and girls can play: efficacy of a counter-stereotypical intervention based on narratives in young children2
The relationship between barriers despite schooling and school engagement in adolescent students: a multilevel linear modeling analysis2
Perceived teacher procedural justice and aggressive behaviors among Chinese primary students: The mediating roles of negative evaluation of school rules and malicious envy2
Collective self-doubt: does subjective SES predict behavioral self-handicapping tendency in college students?2
Parent involvement, expectancy values, and STEM outcomes among underrepresented adolescents2
“Where will I belong more?”: The role of belonging comparisons between STEM fields in high school girls’ STEM interest2
Children’s emotional responses to outperforming others: a new angle on excellence policies in education2
The relationship between regulatory focus, perfectionism, and school burnout2
Parenting correlates of changes in school engagement among racial/ethnic minority students2
Fixed intelligence mindsets predict system legitimization in educational contexts2
Stronger teacher expectation effects on foreign language learning: Student perceptions of the classroom environment as moderators2
Interpersonal mistreatments at university and student well-being: the mediating role of institutional dehumanization2
Self-advocacy experiences of students with specific learning disabilities2
Subjective socioeconomic status and life satisfaction among high school students: the role of teacher-student relationships2
That’s not me: (Dis)concordance between pSTEM nerd-genius stereotypes and self-concepts predicts high school students’ pSTEM identity2
Barriers to success: Do achievement goals predict differential cost perceptions and outcomes?2
Emotionally engaged or feeling anxious and cynical? School experiences and links to school achievement among Finland-Swedish general and special education students2
Who wants to learn harder? The relationship between conservatism and liberalism, desirable difficulties, and academic learning2
A decomposition of the Han-minority achievement gap in rural China2
Correction: Students as victims of bullying by teachers: Longitudinal antecedents and consequences2
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