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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction: Growth mindset of socioeconomic status boosts academic-related outcomes164
Towards education with a shared language: language learning strategies adopted by newly arrived immigrant and refugee adolescents in Danish schools71
School connection through engagement associated with grade scores and emotions of adolescents: four factors to build engagement in schools64
Teachers’ two dimensions of emotional labor characterized by distinct motivational qualities, and their associations with future goals, achievement goals, and job burnout61
Assumptions of immigration status: A moderated mediation analysis of racial microaggressions and internalization impacting latinx and asian college students53
Students as the source of demotivation for teachers: A case study of Vietnamese university EFL teachers42
The roles of impostorism and academic help-seeking in undergraduate students’ sense of belonging and college completion intention40
Effects of witnessing subtle gender bias versus rudeness on interpersonal outcomes among women and men39
Pair learning in virtual laboratories: implications for engagement, self-efficacy, and anxiety39
A multilevel study of peer victimization and its associations with teacher support and well-functioning class climate34
Understanding Filipino students’ achievement in PISA: The roles of personal characteristics, proximal processes, and social contexts29
How do impostor feelings and general self-efficacy co-explain students’ test-anxiety and academic achievements: The preceding role of maternal psychological control27
Social participation in secondary school: The relation to teacher-student interaction, student characteristics and class-related variables27
Teachers’ intervention strategies for handling hate-speech incidents in schools25
Social overload and fear of negative evaluation mediate the effect of neuroticism on classroom disruptions that predicts occupational problems in teachers over two years22
Using personality traits to predict correspondence between self-perception of academic competence and achievement: A latent profile analysis study22
Implicit assumptions of (prospective) music school teachers about musically gifted students21
The social contagion of job satisfaction from principals to teachers: Implications from TALIS21
Correction to: Social competencies, classroom relationships, and academic engagement: A latent change score modeling approach among lower secondary school students21
Peer victimization and anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic: disentangling between and within person effects19
The mediation of organizational commitment between collective teacher efficacy and work engagement17
Identifying core beliefs of an intercultural educator: How polyculturalism and group malleability beliefs shape teachers’ pedagogical thinking and practice17
Soft skills in high schools: integrating self-regulated learning and social, emotional, and behavioral skills frameworks16
Number of books at home as an indicator of socioeconomic status: Examining its extensions and their incremental validity for academic achievement16
Social competencies, classroom relationships, and academic engagement: A latent change score modeling approach among lower secondary school students16
The effect of teacher multicultural attitudes on self-efficacy and wellbeing at work15
Belonging matters: a scoping review of survey instruments—prevalent measures and omissions15
Correction to: Adolescent wellbeing: Relative contributions of social emotional learning and microsystem supports15
Grade 12 students’ perceptions of educational tracks in Flanders15
School socioeconomic desegregation and student academic performance: evidence from a longitudinal study on middle school students in China15
Gender stereotypes: implicit threat to performance or boost for motivational aspects in primary school?15
Is perfectionism associated to a fixed mindset? A review and two studies with the Model of Excellencism and Perfectionism15
Correction: The role of empathy in support for inclusive education15
The role of student and customer social identification on university students’ learning approaches and psychological well-being15
Ethnic hierarchies among pupils in Slovenia: Their ethnic belonging matters14
Teachers' perception of aggressive student behavior through the lens of chronic worry and resignation, and its association with psychophysiological stress: An observational study14
Teacher teams: A safe place to work on creating and maintaining a positive school climate14
Factors related to academic self-handicapping in Black students attending a predominantly White University14
Teachers’ mindset meaning system: achievement goals, beliefs and classroom practices14
Trajectories of implicit theories of intelligence and emotional intelligence in secondary school14
Teacher exhaustion: The effects of disruptive student behaviors, victimization by workplace bullying, and social support from colleagues14
Academic stereotype threat and engagement of higher vocational students: A moderated mediation model13
The role of perceived ingroup norms about intergroup contact in intergroup friendship effects13
Seeking congruity for communal and agentic goals: a longitudinal examination of U.S. college women’s persistence in STEM13
Do students’ mindsets about emotional intelligence change over secondary school? Developmental paths in adolescence12
Correction to: Everything right or nothing wrong? Regulatory fit effects in an e-learning context12
Trajectories of unrealistic optimism in grade expectation: A latent growth mixture model12
Understanding emotion-regulation strategies among foreign language teachers in response to classroom stressors: Findings from a Q methodology study12
Using fiction to improve intergroup attitudes: Testing indirect contact interventions in a school context11
Perceived teacher unfairness and school bullying victimization of senior-grade pupils: The mediating effect and gender difference of the sense of school belonging11
Sensitive minds, supportive environments: A gateway to marginality and dropout intentions, moderated by teacher-student relationships11
Preservice teachers’ developmental knowledge and preparation: associations with beliefs about social dynamics management11
Gender gap in reading achievement: the mediating role of metacognitive strategies and reading-related attitudes11
Examining how teachers’ characteristics impact student motivation and achievement across subject, school level, gender, and prior achievement level11
When boys and girls make their first career decisions: Exploring the role of gender and field in high school major choice11
Coping with diversity in classrooms: predicting Intercultural Self-Efficacy in mandatory education teachers11
How Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is related to Differentiated Instruction (DI): The mediation role of growth mindset and teachers’ practices factors10
Belongingness moderates student mindsets’ influence among first-generation, community college students of color10
The role of self-efficacy, social support and motivation in teacher’s leadership behavior10
Motivating and demotivating teaching styles: A comparison among planned, adopted, and perceived10
Uncovering the role of teacher educators in the reduction of inequalities in education: A critical discourse analysis10
Improving children’s self-regulation and executive functions: a pilot intervention with immigrant mothers9
Achievement goals, self-efficacy, and psychological flexibility as antecedent of study engagement9
Which STEM relationships promote science identities, attitudes, and social belonging? A longitudinal investigation with high school students from underrepresented groups9
How implicit racial bias and concern about appearing racist shape K-12 teachers’ race talk with students9
Knowledge and comfort predict teaching about sexism in school teachers9
Autonomy support and students’ perceived social-emotional competence: predicting parent-reported social-emotional skills9
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
Minoritized pupils’ reflections on their student-teacher relationship in mainstream and supplementary schools8
Resilience as a professional competence: a new way towards healthy teachers?8
The homophily and centrality of LGBQ youth: A new story?8
Structural relationships between classroom emotional climate, teacher–student interpersonal relationships and students’ attitudes to STEM8
How good do you think you are with computers? The link between teachers’ perceived digital literacy, occupational efficacy, and psychological distress8
The impact of fear of losing out (FoLO) on college students’ performance goal orientations and learning strategies in Singapore8
Instructor mindset beliefs and behaviors: How do students and instructors perceive them?8
Chat or cheat? Academic dishonesty, risk perceptions, and ChatGPT usage in higher education students8
Examining the association between social context and disengagement: Individual and classroom factors in two samples of at-risk students8
Social identity threat is related to ethnic minority adolescents’ social approach motivation towards classmates via reduced sense of belonging8
The need for social recognition: the impact of teachers’ professional honor on their intention to move to urban schools in rural China8
Understanding academic expectations: the influence of students’ academic emotions on academic expectations and the mediational role of perceived teacher competence and warmth8
Efficacy of imagined contact intervention with children and adolescents in reducing negative intergroup outcomes: A systematic review7
Exploring the mediating role of emotion regulation on the relationship between teachers’ resilience and their perceived stress7
The role of teachers in guiding student peer interactions: conceptions of pre-service teachers7
Correction: Teacher justice and (A)motivation: a longitudinal study in secondary school7
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
Diversifying STEM: Communal goal mismatch predicts student intentions7
Individual and classroom-level associations of within classroom friendships, friendship quality and a sense of peer community on bullying victimization7
Teacher expectations and their relations with primary school students’ achievement, self-concept, and anxiety in mathematics7
Goal complexes: Integrating achievement goals as standards and self-attributed motives as reasons underlying goal pursuit7
Metamotivational knowledge of construal level predicts academic performance7
Detecting the relationships of teacher’s growth mindset, grit, and receptivity in curriculum reform responding to PISA key-competency assessment7
Bullies, victims, and meanies: the role of child and classmate social and emotional competencies7
Social-emotional need satisfaction, prosocial motivation, and students’ positive behavioral and well-being outcomes7
Understanding motivation for implementing cooperative learning methods: a value-based approach6
Why do teachers intervene? understanding the relationship between subjective norms and teachers’ intervention in real-life bullying incidents6
Friends as a language learning resource in multilingual primary school classrooms6
Collective teacher culture and school goal structure: Associations with teacher self-efficacy and engagement6
Enhancing interaction quality in interdisciplinary group work: The impact of student motivation and teacher-initiated diversity climate6
Children’s perceived parental control and academic achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Individualism and collectivism’s impact on students’ academic helping interactions: an integrative review6
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
Misperceptions of progress towards racial equality in educational attainment and their implications for policy preferences6
School principals’ social support and teachers’ basic need satisfaction: The mediating role of job demands and job resources6
Life satisfaction, relatedness, and study engagement in the upper secondary school transition: the function of social support6
Does open classroom climate uniformly benefit students’ civic outcomes? The moderating role of students’ perceptions of teacher–student relationships6
Achievement emotions predict transfer student academic success6
The role of empathy in support for inclusive education6
Errors: Springboard for learning or tool for evaluation? Ambivalence in teachers’ error-related beliefs and practices6
The role of student background characteristics and sense of belonging in the development of peer networks at the transition to higher education6
Automatic and controlled information processing in the context of students’ ethnic background and social status: An eye-tracking study6
Do growth mindsets reduce the big-fish-little-pond effect?6
Teacher well-being and student achievement: A multilevel analysis6
Teacher support for basic needs is associated with socio-emotional skills: a self-determination theory perspective6
Linking teacher empathy to multicultural teaching competence: The mediating role of multicultural beliefs6
Assessing the association of adverse childhood events with academic performance in the U.S. adolescent population: a secondary data analysis6
“Black sheep”—physical, social, and behavioral diversity as a barrier to STEM educational choice6
Social media use and academic outcomes: the mediating role of grit6
Reluctance to speak in college classrooms: academic causes and consequences6
Nice, but not smart? Attributional backlash from displaying prosocial behavior in the classroom6
Mathematics self-concept moderates the relation between cognitive functions and mathematical skills in primary school children6
Mapping routes from teacher identity to TPACK: mediating roles of technostress, belief and competency6
Pre-service teachers’ experiences with students impacted by trauma in the school setting6
Similarities in mindset between adolescents’ friends and cooperation partners5
Teachers’ emotional exhaustion relates to students’ well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: the multilevel mediating role of students’ perceived teacher-student intimacy5
How values relate to student achievement in upper secondary education: Integrating interdisciplinary perspectives on value beliefs in the school context5
Beliefs, demographics, and context predicting instructional practices in Aotearoa New Zealand classrooms5
Teaching characteristics and students’ achievement emotions in rural and urban areas: a multi-group analysis5
Daily feedback suspicion and ability-uncertainty among junior researchers in competitive work climates in STEM5
Unpacking classroom goal structures based on students’ own words5
Correction to: Perceived teacher procedural justice and aggressive behaviors among Chinese primary students: The mediating roles of negative evaluation of school rules and malicious envy5
Exploring a two-factor structure of stress mindsets in academic contexts: their connections with emotional and behavioral outcomes5
Growth mindset in Chinese culture: A meta-analysis5
An examination of the self-system model of motivational development (SSMMD) from middle childhood through middle adolescence in the school context5
Educating students to prevent gender-based violence: predicting teachers’ intentions in Italy and Hungary5
Changing students’ explicit and implicit attitudes toward peers with disabilities: Effects of a curriculum-based intervention programme5
The relationship between teachers' homework feedback, students' homework emotions, and academic self-esteem: A multi-group analysis of gender differences5
Does parental support amplify growth mindset predictions for student achievement and persistence? Cross-cultural findings from 76 countries/regions5
Parental evaluation of teachers’ competences and characteristics during COVID-19 pandemic homeschooling5
Peer support, teacher support, and activity value in a STEAM contest: the role of helicopter parenting in learning5
University STEM instructors with stronger failure-as-debilitating mindsets are perceived to engage in fewer mastery-oriented teaching Practices by their students: An exploratory study5
Teacher emotional exhaustion: The synergistic roles of self-efficacy and student–teacher relationships5
Sense of belonging, risk factors, and resilience in multiracial college students5
The relationships between teacher presenteeism, emotional demands, trust in principal and emotional exhaustion: A multilevel moderated mediated analysis5
Correction: Bias awareness in teachers: A German adaptation of the bias awareness scale for teachers5
Teachers’ self-efficacy in team teaching practices4
Teachers’ prosociality and well-being at work: The mediating role of teacher engagement in family–school partnerships4
Latent transition analysis of learning weariness in Chinese junior high school students: family functioning and classmate relationships as predictors4
Trajectories of scholastic well-being: The effect of achievement emotions and instructional quality in the first year of secondary school (fifth grade)4
What you think is what you feel: Immigration-related value beliefs predict emotional exhaustion in pre-service teachers4
Prospective associations between peer support, academic competence, and anxiety in college students4
Social rejection from the perspective of latency-age children: Moral failing or normative phenomenon?4
Examining the effects of socioeconomic status indicators on the association between growth mindset and sense of belonging to school4
Appearing smart, confident and motivated: a lens model approach to judgment accuracy in an educational setting4
Why do so few girls aspire for a technology career? The role of social influence, motivational factors, and stereotypes4
Identifying core features and barriers in the actualization of growth mindset pedagogy in classrooms4
The indirect association between moral disengagement and bystander behaviors in school bullying through motivation: Structural equation modelling and mediation analysis4
What is ‘teacher awareness’ and can teachers use it to overcome their expectation bias?– a thematic analysis of research4
Students as victims of bullying by teachers: Longitudinal antecedents and consequences4
Bully-victims in bullying and cyberbullying: An analysis of school-level risk factors4
Predictors of procrastination in first-year university students: role of achievement goals and learning strategies4
Recognizing the diversity in how students define belonging: evidence of differing conceptualizations, including as a function of students’ gender and socioeconomic background4
Changing preservice teacher students’ stereotypes and attitudes and reducing judgment biases concerning students of different family backgrounds: Effects of a short intervention4
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
Defending behavior in school bullying: The role of empathic self-efficacy, social preference, and student-teacher relationship4
Comparison in the classroom: motivation for academic social comparison predicts academic performance4
A critical review of positive education: challenges and limitations4
Students’ thoughts about dropping out: Sociodemographic factors and the role of academic help-seeking4
Understanding teacher professional intentions: the role of teacher psychological resources, appraisals, and job satisfaction4
Rates and Types of Student Aggression against Teachers: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Elementary, Middle, and High Schools4
Peer exclusion as a mediator between shyness and academic alienation in early adolescents: A three-wave longitudinal study4
Bidirectional longitudinal relationships between beliefs about adversity, teacher–student relationships and academic engagement of left behind children4
Impostorism: prevalence and its relationships with mental health, burnout, dropout consideration, and achievement among graduate women in STEM3
Children’s emotional responses to outperforming others: a new angle on excellence policies in education3
Detrimental effects of instructors’ fixed mindsets on students’ anticipated motivation and emotions in secondary and higher education3
Can students with special educational needs overcome the “success” expectations?3
Examining teacher appraisals and occupational health indicators across school contexts following COVID-193
Math self-efficacy or anxiety? The role of emotional and motivational contribution in math performance3
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
Well-functioning class climate and classroom prevalence of bullying victims: a short-term longitudinal class-Level path analysis3
Dual pathway of prejudice in education: teachers’ paternalistic and hostile prejudice affecting minority girls3
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 orient3
Cognitive and affective empathy explain bidirectional links between environmental factors and bullying3
A decomposition of the Han-minority achievement gap in rural China3
Implicit gender-science stereotypes and college-major intentions of italian adolescents3
Boys and girls can play: efficacy of a counter-stereotypical intervention based on narratives in young children3
School middle leaders’ personality traits and collective teachers’ efficacy: the moderating role of resource support3
Correction: Belonging matters: a scoping review of survey instruments—prevalent measures and omissions3
Competitive and cooperative practices in education: How teachers’ beliefs in school meritocracy are related to their daily practices with students3
Framing the theoretical perspectives on emotion regulation: A Habermasian typology and its implications for educational research3
The teaching motivation paradox: A systematic review and content analysis of candidate teachers’ motivations across cultures and time3
Applying debriefings in the context of higher education: How joint reflection fosters students’ collaborative problem solving3
The influence of peers’ parental education on adolescent academic performance: the mediating role of educational aspirations3
The associations of procrastination with preservice teachers’ stress and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic: A three-wave longitudinal investigation3
How do others think about my group? Adolescents’ meta-stereotypes about Turkish- and German-origin students’ subject-related German and general school competence3
It’s a problem, but not mine: Exploring bias-related message acceptance among teachers3
The relationship between regulatory focus, perfectionism, and school burnout3
Teachers’ sentiment about physical appearance of primary school students: Associations with student–teacher relationship quality and student popularity among classroom peers3
Adjustment and acceptance beliefs in achievement settings: Implications for student wellbeing3
Perceived teacher procedural justice and aggressive behaviors among Chinese primary students: The mediating roles of negative evaluation of school rules and malicious envy3
Experiences and support needs of teachers implementing trauma-informed practice for students with intellectual disability3
The moderating effect of perceived social support from friends in the associations between school-based racial discrimination and academic outcomes among Latinx adolescents3
Does need satisfaction reflect positive needs-supplies fit or misfit? A new look at autonomy-supportive contexts using cubic response surface analysis3
Escalation effects in teacher perceptions of classroom behavior in a U.S. context: The intersecting roles of student race, gender, and behavior severity3
Investigating the invariance of non-cognitive skills in countries with different immigration policies: a psychometric network approach3
Teachers’ assessment of self-regulated learning: Linking professional competences, assessment practices, and judgment accuracy3
The structure of psychosocial factors in academic success: A gaussian graphical model approach3
Has COVID-19 changed pre-service teachers perceptions of the profession? Yes, but not necessarily in bad ways3
Correction: Moral disengagement in primary school children involved in cyberbullying, bullying, and cybergossip3
Parenting correlates of changes in school engagement among racial/ethnic minority students3
Addressing racial misinformation at school: a psycho-social intervention aimed at reducing ethnic moral disengagement in adolescents3
Academic buoyancy among female secondary school students: An examination of predictors and outcomes up to age 222
Barriers to success: Do achievement goals predict differential cost perceptions and outcomes?2
Differences in need-supportive teaching toward students from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the role of teachers’ attitudes2
A longitudinal experiment examining the joint effects of social, dimensional, and temporal comparisons on self- and external assessments of students’ abilities2
Transformational leadership and organizational commitment: unlocking the potential of collective teacher efficacy2
Fixed intelligence mindsets predict system legitimization in educational contexts2
Teachers’ multicultural beliefs or countries’ integration policies? Contextual influences on students’ multicultural learning and attitudes towards immigrants2
How do perceived teacher beliefs and classroom goal structures relate to motivations and enrollments in secondary school mathematics and English?2
Predictors of educational aspirations of Roma mothers in Czech Republic, Greece, and Portugal2
Assessing class cohesion in primary and secondary education: Development and preliminary validation of the class cohesion questionnaire (CCQ)2
Everything right or nothing wrong? Regulatory fit effects in an e-learning context2
Relations among perceived school context-related factors, cyberbullying, and school adjustment: An examination between native and immigrant students in elementary and secondary education2
Learning how to learn: Student voices on the function and utility of a student-engaged design intervention in a rural middle school2
Patterns of presenteeism and their associations with work engagement and turnover intention among Chinese primary and secondary school teachers2
“Failure-to-warn” when giving advice to students? No evidence for an ethnic bias among teacher students in Germany2
Prejudice and need for relatedness expressed in the narratives of Finnish Roma early school leavers: A multi-case study2
The lack of fit framework in school: girls’ perceived misfit and its consequences in a male-stereotyped discipline2
Adolescents’ implicit attitudes towards people with immigrant background: Differences and correlates2
Rethinking teaching skills: growth teaching mindsets predict teachers’ positive emotions and effective management in EFL classrooms2
Grit and self-regulated learning: evaluating achievement goals as mediators2
People get ready: high school students’ college readiness and higher education success2
That’s not me: (Dis)concordance between pSTEM nerd-genius stereotypes and self-concepts predicts high school students’ pSTEM identity2
The longitudinal associations between teacher-student relationships and school outcomes in typical and vulnerable student populations: a systematic review2
A daily diary study on associations between school-based ethnic discrimination and school engagement2
Negative teacher feedback toward students decreases the probability of empathic classmates making a sociometric choice2
Subjective socioeconomic status and life satisfaction among high school students: the role of teacher-student relationships2
Linking self-transcendence values to classroom prosocial behavior: the mediating role of teachers’ autonomy support in elementary school students2
Moderation effect of ecological profiles on the relationship between self directed learnings self efficacy and teacher support2
Self-doubt and self-regulation: A systematic literature review of the factors affecting academic cheating in online learning environments2
Moral disengagement and defender self-efficacy and their associations with defending, unconcerned bystanding, and guilty bystanding in school bullying2
Mindfulness and teachers’ diversity awareness: indirect effect of mindful teaching in a sample of in-service teachers2
Academic contingent self-worth and self-handicapping: an experimental test of failure mindset as a moderator2
Job insecurity and work engagement among teachers: moderated-mediation involving affective well-being and emotion regulation difficulties2
Fixed is not the opposite of growth: Item keying matters for measuring mindsets2
Taking their perspective: Students’ reasons and aims of achievement striving in their own words2
Correction: The need for social recognition: the impact of teachers’ professional honor on their intention to move to urban schools in rural China2
Stronger teacher expectation effects on foreign language learning: Student perceptions of the classroom environment as moderators2
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