Relationship between social competence, learning motivation, and school anxiety in primary school

Magelinskaitė, Šarūnė; Kepalaitė, Albina; Legkauskas, Visvaldas

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.683

Use this url to cite publication: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12259/52581

Relationship between social competence, learning motivation, and school anxiety in primary school

Type of publication

Straipsnis konferencijos medžiagoje Web of Science duomenų bazėje / Article in conference proceedings in Web of Science database (P1a1)

Author(s)

Author	Affiliation
Magelinskaitė, Šarūnė	Socialinių mokslų fakultetas / Faculty of Social Sciences	LT
Kepalaitė, Albina	Psichologijos katedra / Department of Psychology	LT
Legkauskas, Visvaldas	Psichologijos katedra / Department of Psychology	LT

Title

Relationship between social competence, learning motivation, and school anxiety in primary school

[en]

Is part of

Procedia : social and behavioral sciences. Oxford : Elsevier Ltd, 2014, Vol. 116

Date Issued

Date
2014

Publisher

Oxford : Elsevier Ltd

Publisher (trusted)

Elsevier Science

Is Referenced by

Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (Web of Science)

ScienceDirect

Extent

p. 2936-2940

URI

URI
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042814007009
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12259/52581

DOI

10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.683

Field of Science

Keywords (en)

Abstract (en)

The purpose of the present study is to assess relationship between social competence, learning motivation and school anxiety among 1st and 2nd grade pupils in Lithuania. Subjects were 124 pupils (47 boys and 77 girls) attending 1st (63 subjects) and 2nd (61 subjects) grade in primary school in Kaunas, Lithuania. Results of the study revealed that higher social competence of primary school pupils was related to higher learning motivation (r = .382, p < .001) and lower school anxiety (r = - .487, p < .001). Higher school anxiety was linked to lower learning motivation (r = - .207, p= .025).