TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Hoferichter, Frances
A1  - Raufelder, Diana
A1  - Eid, Michael
T1  - Socio-motivational moderators—two sides of the same coin? Testing the potential buffering role of socio-motivational relationships on achievement drive and test anxiety among German and Canadian secondary school students
JF  - Frontiers in Psychology
N2  - The current cross-national study investigates the potential buffering role of socio-motivational relationships for the association of achievement drive (AD) and test anxiety (TX) in secondary school students from Canada and Germany. One thousand and eighty-eight students (54% girls, Mage = 13.71, SD = 0.53, age span 12–15 years) from the state of Brandenburg and 389 students from Quebéc (55.9% girls, Mage = 13.43, SD = 0.82, age span 12–16 years) were asked about their socio-motivational relationships with their teachers and peers, their drive for achievement, and TX. Multigroup latent moderated structural equations were conducted to test for the moderator role of socio-motivational relationships that would buffer feelings of TX related to the drive for achievement. The analyses revealed the two-sided role socio-motivational relationships can have for students with different levels of AD; intensifying or mitigating feelings of TX. Thereby, the results of this study extend the buffering hypothesis by Cohen and Wills (1985). Cross-national differences between Canada and Germany were found concerning the studied moderators on the association of AD and TX: While for German students teacher–student relationships acted as moderator, for Canadian students student–student relationships and teachers acting as positive motivators displayed a moderator role.
KW  - -
KW  - achievement drive
KW  - German and Canadian secondary school students
KW  - multigroup latent moderated structural equations
KW  - socio-motivational relationships
KW  - test anxiety
Y1  - 2015
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:9-opus-33121
SN  - 1664-1078
SS  - 1664-1078
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01675
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01675
VL  - 6
PB  - Frontiers Media S.A.
ER  -