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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2020.21.1.665

Mediating Effect of Academic Self-efficacy in the Relationship between the Grit of Teens and Self-directed Learning  

Kim, Eun Im (Hoseo University of Korea)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.21, no.1, 2020 , pp. 665-674 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study determined the relationship between grit and self-regulated learning in South Korean teens in order to gain an understanding of grit, which is still at the beginning stage of the research, and to obtain implications for Korean learners' self-directed learning. This study also clarified the process by which learners are involved in selecting effective goals for self-directed learning and to provide cognitive efficacy for learners to encourage efforts to achieve their goals. This study was conducted over the period of 4 weeks, and was mainly targeted at the middle-school and high-school boys and girls in Daejeon, Sejong and Cheonan by using 376 collected survey questionnaires. Confirmatory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, structural equation, and Sobel-tests were performed using SPSS 23.0 and AMOS 23.0 for the data analysis. The hypothesis test results of this study are as follows. First, the grit of teens had a positive influence on their academic self-efficacy. Second, the grit of teens had a positive influence on their self-directed learning. Third, academic self-efficacy of teens was found to have a positive effect on their self-directed learning. Fourth, academic self-efficacy of the teens had a mediating effect in the relationship between the teens' grit and self-directed learning.
Keywords
Teens; Grit; Self-Directed Learning; Academic Self-Efficacy; Educational Assignment;
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