Influences of Parenting Style and the Teacher-Student Relationship on Self-Directed Learning of High School Students: The Mediating Effect of Core Self-Evaluations

Abstract

The paper takes the high school students as the research object, discusses the factors influencing the self-directed learning of such a special group, selects 306 high school students from Yunnan Province and Xiamen City, studies the relation between the students' parenting style, the teacher-student relationship and the students' self-directed learning by means of questionnaire survey, explores the mediating effect of the core self-evaluations therein, and conducts the data analysis with softwares SPSS22.0 and AMOS22.0.The results of the study confirm the psychological mechanism that the parenting style and the teacher-student relationship do have an influence on the self-directed learning of high school students and that the core self-evaluations plays a partial role in mediation of their relation, which have proposed some suggestions on the high school students' self-directed learning.