Network analysis of academic achievement and psychological characteristics of secondary school adolescents.

IF 3.3 2区医学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY Global Mental Health Pub Date : 2025-02-19 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1017/gmh.2025.17

Esin Yılmaz Koğar, Ayfer Sayın, Hakan Koğar, Hüseyin Kafes, Güçlü Şekercioğlu

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In this study, network analysis was conducted using an exploratory approach on the variables of self-efficacy, academic resilience (AR), cognitive test anxiety and academic achievement (ACH), which are frequently examined in educational research. Data were collected from a total of 828 Turkish secondary school adolescents (51.9% female), using three different self-reported scales for self-efficacy, AR and cognitive test anxiety, as well as an ACH scale. The data were analyzed using regularized partial correlation network analysis (EBICglasso). The results show that academic self-efficacy (ASE) stands out among the variables of the study and that there is a positive relationship between ASE and all other variables except cognitive test anxiety. Besides, increasing students' ASE and AR levels plays a notable role in increasing their ACH levels. By providing new evidence on the relationships among these variables, this study offers insights that may inspire educational policy interventions.

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Global Mental Health PSYCHIATRY-

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期刊介绍： lobal Mental Health (GMH) is an Open Access journal that publishes papers that have a broad application of ‘the global point of view’ of mental health issues. The field of ‘global mental health’ is still emerging, reflecting a movement of advocacy and associated research driven by an agenda to remedy longstanding treatment gaps and disparities in care, access, and capacity. But these efforts and goals are also driving a potential reframing of knowledge in powerful ways, and positioning a new disciplinary approach to mental health. GMH seeks to cultivate and grow this emerging distinct discipline of ‘global mental health’, and the new knowledge and paradigms that should come from it.