Social Psychology of Education

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Psychology of Education is 3. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
How do impostor feelings and general self-efficacy co-explain students’ test-anxiety and academic achievements: The preceding role of maternal psychological control99
Correction: Growth mindset of socioeconomic status boosts academic-related outcomes91
Teachers’ two dimensions of emotional labor characterized by distinct motivational qualities, and their associations with future goals, achievement goals, and job burnout64
Effects of witnessing subtle gender bias versus rudeness on interpersonal outcomes among women and men60
Understanding Filipino students’ achievement in PISA: The roles of personal characteristics, proximal processes, and social contexts53
Social participation in secondary school: The relation to teacher-student interaction, student characteristics and class-related variables45
A multilevel study of peer victimization and its associations with teacher support and well-functioning class climate44
The roles of impostorism and academic help-seeking in undergraduate students’ sense of belonging and college completion intention42
Students as the source of demotivation for teachers: A case study of Vietnamese university EFL teachers40
Pair learning in virtual laboratories: implications for engagement, self-efficacy, and anxiety36
School connection through engagement associated with grade scores and emotions of adolescents: four factors to build engagement in schools35
Towards education with a shared language: language learning strategies adopted by newly arrived immigrant and refugee adolescents in Danish schools34
Assumptions of immigration status: A moderated mediation analysis of racial microaggressions and internalization impacting latinx and asian college students32
Teachers’ intervention strategies for handling hate-speech incidents in schools32
Social overload and fear of negative evaluation mediate the effect of neuroticism on classroom disruptions that predicts occupational problems in teachers over two years30
Implicit assumptions of (prospective) music school teachers about musically gifted students29
Peer victimization and anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic: disentangling between and within person effects25
Identifying core beliefs of an intercultural educator: How polyculturalism and group malleability beliefs shape teachers’ pedagogical thinking and practice24
Social competencies, classroom relationships, and academic engagement: A latent change score modeling approach among lower secondary school students24
Soft skills in high schools: integrating self-regulated learning and social, emotional, and behavioral skills frameworks23
The mediation of organizational commitment between collective teacher efficacy and work engagement23
Correction to: Social competencies, classroom relationships, and academic engagement: A latent change score modeling approach among lower secondary school students22
The social contagion of job satisfaction from principals to teachers: Implications from TALIS22
Number of books at home as an indicator of socioeconomic status: Examining its extensions and their incremental validity for academic achievement21
Using personality traits to predict correspondence between self-perception of academic competence and achievement: A latent profile analysis study21
Grade 12 students’ perceptions of educational tracks in Flanders21
The role of student and customer social identification on university students’ learning approaches and psychological well-being20
Correction: The role of empathy in support for inclusive education19
Correction to: Adolescent wellbeing: Relative contributions of social emotional learning and microsystem supports19
Belonging matters: a scoping review of survey instruments—prevalent measures and omissions19
Factors related to academic self-handicapping in Black students attending a predominantly White University19
The role of perceived ingroup norms about intergroup contact in intergroup friendship effects18
Academic stereotype threat and engagement of higher vocational students: A moderated mediation model18
Teacher exhaustion: The effects of disruptive student behaviors, victimization by workplace bullying, and social support from colleagues18
Ethnic hierarchies among pupils in Slovenia: Their ethnic belonging matters18
The effect of teacher multicultural attitudes on self-efficacy and wellbeing at work18
Teacher teams: A safe place to work on creating and maintaining a positive school climate18
Trajectories of implicit theories of intelligence and emotional intelligence in secondary school17
Teachers' perception of aggressive student behavior through the lens of chronic worry and resignation, and its association with psychophysiological stress: An observational study17
Understanding emotion-regulation strategies among foreign language teachers in response to classroom stressors: Findings from a Q methodology study17
School socioeconomic desegregation and student academic performance: evidence from a longitudinal study on middle school students in China17
Perceived teacher unfairness and school bullying victimization of senior-grade pupils: The mediating effect and gender difference of the sense of school belonging16
Is perfectionism associated to a fixed mindset? A review and two studies with the Model of Excellencism and Perfectionism16
Correction to: Everything right or nothing wrong? Regulatory fit effects in an e-learning context16
Trajectories of unrealistic optimism in grade expectation: A latent growth mixture model16
Uncovering the role of teacher educators in the reduction of inequalities in education: A critical discourse analysis16
Teachers’ mindset meaning system: achievement goals, beliefs and classroom practices16
Preservice teachers’ developmental knowledge and preparation: associations with beliefs about social dynamics management15
Sensitive minds, supportive environments: A gateway to marginality and dropout intentions, moderated by teacher-student relationships15
How Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is related to Differentiated Instruction (DI): The mediation role of growth mindset and teachers’ practices factors15
When boys and girls make their first career decisions: Exploring the role of gender and field in high school major choice15
Motivating and demotivating teaching styles: A comparison among planned, adopted, and perceived14
Which STEM relationships promote science identities, attitudes, and social belonging? A longitudinal investigation with high school students from underrepresented groups14
Examining how teachers’ characteristics impact student motivation and achievement across subject, school level, gender, and prior achievement level14
Autonomy support and students’ perceived social-emotional competence: predicting parent-reported social-emotional skills14
Coping with diversity in classrooms: predicting Intercultural Self-Efficacy in mandatory education teachers14
The role of self-efficacy, social support and motivation in teacher’s leadership behavior14
Testing the effect of agreement and discrepancy between teachers’ and students’ reported interpersonal behaviors on students’ motivation: a response surface analysis13
Socio-emotional experiences of primary school students: Relations to teachers’ underestimation, overestimation, or accurate judgment of their cognitive ability13
Using fiction to improve intergroup attitudes: Testing indirect contact interventions in a school context13
Belongingness moderates student mindsets’ influence among first-generation, community college students of color13
Improving children’s self-regulation and executive functions: a pilot intervention with immigrant mothers13
Do students’ mindsets about emotional intelligence change over secondary school? Developmental paths in adolescence13
Achievement goals, self-efficacy, and psychological flexibility as antecedent of study engagement13
Minoritized pupils’ reflections on their student-teacher relationship in mainstream and supplementary schools12
The homophily and centrality of LGBQ youth: A new story?12
The impact of fear of losing out (FoLO) on college students’ performance goal orientations and learning strategies in Singapore12
How implicit racial bias and concern about appearing racist shape K-12 teachers’ race talk with students12
Correction: Teacher justice and (A)motivation: a longitudinal study in secondary school12
How good do you think you are with computers? The link between teachers’ perceived digital literacy, occupational efficacy, and psychological distress12
Need satisfaction and frustration among early career teachers: implications for teacher induction12
Knowledge and comfort predict teaching about sexism in school teachers11
The need for social recognition: the impact of teachers’ professional honor on their intention to move to urban schools in rural China11
Understanding academic expectations: the influence of students’ academic emotions on academic expectations and the mediational role of perceived teacher competence and warmth11
Teacher expectations and their relations with primary school students’ achievement, self-concept, and anxiety in mathematics11
Mind the gap: Early-career teachers’ level of preparedness, professional development, working conditions, and feelings of distress11
Examining the association between social context and disengagement: Individual and classroom factors in two samples of at-risk students11
Individual and classroom-level associations of within classroom friendships, friendship quality and a sense of peer community on bullying victimization11
Resilience as a professional competence: a new way towards healthy teachers?11
Social identity threat is related to ethnic minority adolescents’ social approach motivation towards classmates via reduced sense of belonging11
Goal complexes: Integrating achievement goals as standards and self-attributed motives as reasons underlying goal pursuit10
Individualism and collectivism’s impact on students’ academic helping interactions: an integrative review10
Exploring the mediating role of emotion regulation on the relationship between teachers’ resilience and their perceived stress10
Automatic and controlled information processing in the context of students’ ethnic background and social status: An eye-tracking study10
Cyberbullying and cyberstalking in higher education: policies and practices for supporting students and university staff10
Efficacy of imagined contact intervention with children and adolescents in reducing negative intergroup outcomes: A systematic review10
Chat or cheat? Academic dishonesty, risk perceptions, and ChatGPT usage in higher education students10
The role of teachers in guiding student peer interactions: conceptions of pre-service teachers10
Discourses about grades and competency-based evaluation: Exploring communicative and situated meanings at an Italian high school10
Detecting the relationships of teacher’s growth mindset, grit, and receptivity in curriculum reform responding to PISA key-competency assessment10
Mathematics self-concept moderates the relation between cognitive functions and mathematical skills in primary school children10
Instructor mindset beliefs and behaviors: How do students and instructors perceive them?10
Metamotivational knowledge of construal level predicts academic performance10
Diversifying STEM: Communal goal mismatch predicts student intentions9
Reluctance to speak in college classrooms: academic causes and consequences9
Misperceptions of progress towards racial equality in educational attainment and their implications for policy preferences9
Collective teacher culture and school goal structure: Associations with teacher self-efficacy and engagement9
“Black sheep”—physical, social, and behavioral diversity as a barrier to STEM educational choice9
Do growth mindsets reduce the big-fish-little-pond effect?9
Does open classroom climate uniformly benefit students’ civic outcomes? The moderating role of students’ perceptions of teacher–student relationships9
The role of empathy in support for inclusive education9
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 cul9
Nice, but not smart? Attributional backlash from displaying prosocial behavior in the classroom9
Children’s perceived parental control and academic achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic9
The role of student background characteristics and sense of belonging in the development of peer networks at the transition to higher education9
Assessing the association of adverse childhood events with academic performance in the U.S. adolescent population: a secondary data analysis8
Teacher support for basic needs is associated with socio-emotional skills: a self-determination theory perspective8
Teacher well-being and student achievement: A multilevel analysis8
Enhancing interaction quality in interdisciplinary group work: The impact of student motivation and teacher-initiated diversity climate8
Friends as a language learning resource in multilingual primary school classrooms8
Daily feedback suspicion and ability-uncertainty among junior researchers in competitive work climates in STEM8
Pre-service teachers’ experiences with students impacted by trauma in the school setting8
Mapping routes from teacher identity to TPACK: mediating roles of technostress, belief and competency8
Errors: Springboard for learning or tool for evaluation? Ambivalence in teachers’ error-related beliefs and practices8
Achievement emotions predict transfer student academic success8
The relationship between teachers' homework feedback, students' homework emotions, and academic self-esteem: A multi-group analysis of gender differences8
Correction: Bias awareness in teachers: A German adaptation of the bias awareness scale for teachers8
Social media use and academic outcomes: the mediating role of grit8
School principals’ social support and teachers’ basic need satisfaction: The mediating role of job demands and job resources8
The relationships between teacher presenteeism, emotional demands, trust in principal and emotional exhaustion: A multilevel moderated mediated analysis8
Changing students’ explicit and implicit attitudes toward peers with disabilities: Effects of a curriculum-based intervention programme7
Does parental support amplify growth mindset predictions for student achievement and persistence? Cross-cultural findings from 76 countries/regions7
Teachers’ emotional exhaustion relates to students’ well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: the multilevel mediating role of students’ perceived teacher-student intimacy7
Correction to: Perceived teacher procedural justice and aggressive behaviors among Chinese primary students: The mediating roles of negative evaluation of school rules and malicious envy7
An examination of the self-system model of motivational development (SSMMD) from middle childhood through middle adolescence in the school context7
Comparison in the classroom: motivation for academic social comparison predicts academic performance7
Similarities in mindset between adolescents’ friends and cooperation partners7
Educating students to prevent gender-based violence: predicting teachers’ intentions in Italy and Hungary7
Unpacking classroom goal structures based on students’ own words7
Why do teachers intervene? understanding the relationship between subjective norms and teachers’ intervention in real-life bullying incidents7
Teacher emotional exhaustion: The synergistic roles of self-efficacy and student–teacher relationships7
University STEM instructors with stronger failure-as-debilitating mindsets are perceived to engage in fewer mastery-oriented teaching Practices by their students: An exploratory study7
Identifying core features and barriers in the actualization of growth mindset pedagogy in classrooms7
Appearing smart, confident and motivated: a lens model approach to judgment accuracy in an educational setting7
Growth mindset in Chinese culture: A meta-analysis7
Sense of belonging, risk factors, and resilience in multiracial college students7
Life satisfaction, relatedness, and study engagement in the upper secondary school transition: the function of social support7
Linking teacher empathy to multicultural teaching competence: The mediating role of multicultural beliefs7
Peer support, teacher support, and activity value in a STEAM contest: the role of helicopter parenting in learning7
Parental evaluation of teachers’ competences and characteristics during COVID-19 pandemic homeschooling7
Teachers’ self-efficacy in team teaching practices7
Exploring a two-factor structure of stress mindsets in academic contexts: their connections with emotional and behavioral outcomes7
The indirect association between moral disengagement and bystander behaviors in school bullying through motivation: Structural equation modelling and mediation analysis7
Teaching characteristics and students’ achievement emotions in rural and urban areas: a multi-group analysis7
How values relate to student achievement in upper secondary education: Integrating interdisciplinary perspectives on value beliefs in the school context6
Teachers’ prosociality and well-being at work: The mediating role of teacher engagement in family–school partnerships6
Bully-victims in bullying and cyberbullying: An analysis of school-level risk factors6
Changing preservice teacher students’ stereotypes and attitudes and reducing judgment biases concerning students of different family backgrounds: Effects of a short intervention6
What is ‘teacher awareness’ and can teachers use it to overcome their expectation bias?– a thematic analysis of research6
Understanding teacher professional intentions: the role of teacher psychological resources, appraisals, and job satisfaction6
Examining the effects of socioeconomic status indicators on the association between growth mindset and sense of belonging to school6
Well-functioning class climate and classroom prevalence of bullying victims: a short-term longitudinal class-Level path analysis6
The influence of peers’ parental education on adolescent academic performance: the mediating role of educational aspirations6
Recognizing the diversity in how students define belonging: evidence of differing conceptualizations, including as a function of students’ gender and socioeconomic background6
A critical review of positive education: challenges and limitations6
The role of mindsets in culturally responsive teaching: Pedagogical strategies among Finnish preservice teachers6
Bidirectional longitudinal relationships between beliefs about adversity, teacher–student relationships and academic engagement of left behind children6
Job load, job stress, and job exhaustion among Chinese junior middle school teachers: Job satisfaction as a mediator and teacher’s role as a moderator6
Latent transition analysis of learning weariness in Chinese junior high school students: family functioning and classmate relationships as predictors6
Trajectories of scholastic well-being: The effect of achievement emotions and instructional quality in the first year of secondary school (fifth grade)6
Rates and Types of Student Aggression against Teachers: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Elementary, Middle, and High Schools6
Applying debriefings in the context of higher education: How joint reflection fosters students’ collaborative problem solving6
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 6
The structure of psychosocial factors in academic success: A gaussian graphical model approach6
Predictors of procrastination in first-year university students: role of achievement goals and learning strategies6
Dual pathway of prejudice in education: teachers’ paternalistic and hostile prejudice affecting minority girls6
Peer exclusion as a mediator between shyness and academic alienation in early adolescents: A three-wave longitudinal study6
Defending behavior in school bullying: The role of empathic self-efficacy, social preference, and student-teacher relationship6
Why do so few girls aspire for a technology career? The role of social influence, motivational factors, and stereotypes6
Beliefs, demographics, and context predicting instructional practices in Aotearoa New Zealand classrooms6
Students’ thoughts about dropping out: Sociodemographic factors and the role of academic help-seeking6
Students as victims of bullying by teachers: Longitudinal antecedents and consequences6
Social rejection from the perspective of latency-age children: Moral failing or normative phenomenon?6
Correction: Moral disengagement in primary school children involved in cyberbullying, bullying, and cybergossip6
The associations of procrastination with preservice teachers’ stress and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic: A three-wave longitudinal investigation6
Prospective associations between peer support, academic competence, and anxiety in college students6
What you think is what you feel: Immigration-related value beliefs predict emotional exhaustion in pre-service teachers6
Framing the theoretical perspectives on emotion regulation: A Habermasian typology and its implications for educational research5
The moderating effect of perceived social support from friends in the associations between school-based racial discrimination and academic outcomes among Latinx adolescents5
The teaching motivation paradox: A systematic review and content analysis of candidate teachers’ motivations across cultures and time5
How do others think about my group? Adolescents’ meta-stereotypes about Turkish- and German-origin students’ subject-related German and general school competence5
Teachers’ assessment of self-regulated learning: Linking professional competences, assessment practices, and judgment accuracy5
School middle leaders’ personality traits and collective teachers’ efficacy: the moderating role of resource support5
Teachers’ personal history of bullying involvement and their intentions to engage in anti-bullying interventions: the mediating role of self-efficacy and the moderating role of social dominance orient5
Competitive and cooperative practices in education: How teachers’ beliefs in school meritocracy are related to their daily practices with students5
Prejudice and need for relatedness expressed in the narratives of Finnish Roma early school leavers: A multi-case study5
Experiences and support needs of teachers implementing trauma-informed practice for students with intellectual disability5
Math self-efficacy or anxiety? The role of emotional and motivational contribution in math performance5
Examining teacher appraisals and occupational health indicators across school contexts following COVID-195
Can students with special educational needs overcome the “success” expectations?5
Does need satisfaction reflect positive needs-supplies fit or misfit? A new look at autonomy-supportive contexts using cubic response surface analysis5
Detrimental effects of instructors’ fixed mindsets on students’ anticipated motivation and emotions in secondary and higher education5
It’s a problem, but not mine: Exploring bias-related message acceptance among teachers5
Teachers’ sentiment about physical appearance of primary school students: Associations with student–teacher relationship quality and student popularity among classroom peers5
Investigating the invariance of non-cognitive skills in countries with different immigration policies: a psychometric network approach5
Has COVID-19 changed pre-service teachers perceptions of the profession? Yes, but not necessarily in bad ways5
Escalation effects in teacher perceptions of classroom behavior in a U.S. context: The intersecting roles of student race, gender, and behavior severity5
Barriers to success: Do achievement goals predict differential cost perceptions and outcomes?4
Correction: Students as victims of bullying by teachers: Longitudinal antecedents and consequences4
Correction: The need for social recognition: the impact of teachers’ professional honor on their intention to move to urban schools in rural China4
Moral disengagement and defender self-efficacy and their associations with defending, unconcerned bystanding, and guilty bystanding in school bullying4
Boys and girls can play: efficacy of a counter-stereotypical intervention based on narratives in young children4
Moderation effect of ecological profiles on the relationship between self directed learnings self efficacy and teacher support4
“Failure-to-warn” when giving advice to students? No evidence for an ethnic bias among teacher students in Germany4
What students need from their teacher: Need satisfaction as mediator of the association between perceived cognitive adaptive support, and student outcomes4
Adjustment and acceptance beliefs in achievement settings: Implications for student wellbeing4
A longitudinal experiment examining the joint effects of social, dimensional, and temporal comparisons on self- and external assessments of students’ abilities4
Parenting correlates of changes in school engagement among racial/ethnic minority students4
The reciprocal relations between parents’ social mobility beliefs, adolescents’ social mobility beliefs, and academic achievement and their underlying mechanisms4
Self-advocacy experiences of students with specific learning disabilities4
Self-doubt and self-regulation: A systematic literature review of the factors affecting academic cheating in online learning environments4
Academic self-efficacy, self-esteem, and grit in higher online education: Consistency of interests predicts academic success4
The relationship between barriers despite schooling and school engagement in adolescent students: a multilevel linear modeling analysis4
Intertwining self-efficacy, basic psychological need satisfaction, and emotions in higher education teaching: A micro-longitudinal study4
Perceptions of the school climate’s effect on teacher burnout: the mediating roles of loneliness and emotional labor strategies4
Adolescents’ educational aspirations and expectations: the interaction between school experiences, region, and financial disadvantage4
Perceived teacher procedural justice and aggressive behaviors among Chinese primary students: The mediating roles of negative evaluation of school rules and malicious envy4
Professional commitment and satisfaction of teachers in head start within a systemically marginalized community: associations with perceived psychological distress and physical safety4
Addressing racial misinformation at school: a psycho-social intervention aimed at reducing ethnic moral disengagement in adolescents4
Children’s emotional responses to outperforming others: a new angle on excellence policies in education4
Cognitive and affective empathy explain bidirectional links between environmental factors and bullying4
Subjective socioeconomic status and life satisfaction among high school students: the role of teacher-student relationships4
Teachers provide more candid feedback after delivering wise feedback messages4
Intersectional perspectives on the university belonging of international STEM students4
Newly qualified teachers in the eyes of principals: Moving beyond deficit perspectives4
Interpersonal mistreatments at university and student well-being: the mediating role of institutional dehumanization4
Fixed intelligence mindsets predict system legitimization in educational contexts4
Determinants of academic achievement from the middle to secondary school education: A systematic review4
Transformational leadership and organizational commitment: unlocking the potential of collective teacher efficacy4
Implicit gender-science stereotypes and college-major intentions of italian adolescents4
Learning how to learn: Student voices on the function and utility of a student-engaged design intervention in a rural middle school4
The relationship between regulatory focus, perfectionism, and school burnout4
A decomposition of the Han-minority achievement gap in rural China4
Correction: Belonging matters: a scoping review of survey instruments—prevalent measures and omissions4
Impostorism: prevalence and its relationships with mental health, burnout, dropout consideration, and achievement among graduate women in STEM4
Teachers’ dysfunctional feedback to students from immigrant and non-immigrant backgrounds: A pilot study3
How do perceived teacher beliefs and classroom goal structures relate to motivations and enrollments in secondary school mathematics and English?3
How an autonomy-supportive learning environment influences students’ achievements in science and mathematics3
Grit and self-regulated learning: evaluating achievement goals as mediators3
Can I dismiss the stereotype – as my teacher did? Influence of stereotype activation and an immigrant teacher on student learning3
Academic contingent self-worth and self-handicapping: an experimental test of failure mindset as a moderator3
Correction to: Identifying core features and barriers in the actualization of growth mindset pedagogy in classrooms3
Subjective family SES and the internalization of vocational education stigma: effects on learning engagement3
Job insecurity and work engagement among teachers: moderated-mediation involving affective well-being and emotion regulation difficulties3
Snitching versus reporting: A qualitative analysis of barriers and facilitators to addressing safety concerns among high school students3
Rethinking teaching skills: growth teaching mindsets predict teachers’ positive emotions and effective management in EFL classrooms3
Teachers’ multicultural beliefs or countries’ integration policies? Contextual influences on students’ multicultural learning and attitudes towards immigrants3
Mindfulness and teachers’ diversity awareness: indirect effect of mindful teaching in a sample of in-service teachers3
Predictors of educational aspirations of Roma mothers in Czech Republic, Greece, and Portugal3
Need-supportive and need-thwarting interpersonal behaviors by teachers and classmates in adolescence: The mediating role of basic psychological needs on school alienation and academic achievement3
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