Feraco Tommaso, Resnati Dario, Fregonese Davide, Spoto Andrea, Meneghetti Chiara
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, via Venezia 8, Padua, Italy.
Pentathlon Srl, Napoli, Italy.
Eur J Psychol Educ. 2023;38(1):109-130. doi: 10.1007/s10212-022-00601-4. Epub 2022 Jan 28.
The role of soft skills at school is still debated, but they have emerged as important factors for students' academic achievement and life satisfaction. This study focuses on the combined influence of soft skills (in terms of adaptability, curiosity, leadership, initiative, perseverance, and social awareness), extracurricular activities, achievement emotions, self-regulated learning, motivation, and cognitive abilities on academic achievement and life satisfaction. A sample of 603 students (5th to 12th graders) participated in the study. The results of a Bayesian path analysis based on meta-analytical priors show that soft skills were (i) directly positively associated with students' achievement emotions, self-regulated learning, motivation, and life satisfaction and (ii) indirectly related with academic achievement through the mediation of self-regulated learning and motivation. On the other hand, only soft skills and achievement emotions were directly related to life satisfaction. Extracurricular activities showed a positive association with both soft skills and cognitive abilities. These results are the first to demonstrate the importance of soft skills and extracurricular activities when integrating all the above-mentioned factors in a model of students' academic achievement and life satisfaction.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10212-022-00601-4.
软技能在学校中的作用仍存在争议，但它们已成为影响学生学业成绩和生活满意度的重要因素。本研究聚焦于软技能（在适应能力、好奇心、领导力、主动性、毅力和社会意识方面）、课外活动、成就情绪、自我调节学习、动机和认知能力对学业成绩和生活满意度的综合影响。603名学生（五年级至十二年级）参与了该研究。基于元分析先验的贝叶斯路径分析结果表明，软技能（i）与学生的成就情绪、自我调节学习、动机和生活满意度直接呈正相关，且（ii）通过自我调节学习和动机的中介作用与学业成绩间接相关。另一方面，只有软技能和成就情绪与生活满意度直接相关。课外活动与软技能和认知能力均呈正相关。这些结果首次证明了在学生学业成绩和生活满意度模型中整合上述所有因素时软技能和课外活动的重要性。
在线版本包含可在10.1007/s10212-022-00601-4获取的补充材料。
