Examining Relations Between Teacher/Peer Mentor Nonverbal Immediacy And Intellectual Risk Taking: A Mediating Role For Both Belonging And Mattering?

McGrath, Molly (2025) Examining Relations Between Teacher/Peer Mentor Nonverbal Immediacy And Intellectual Risk Taking: A Mediating Role For Both Belonging And Mattering? Bachelor thesis, Psychology.

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Abstract

This thesis examined the impact of peer mentor nonverbal immediacy on intellectual risk taking (IRT) through a double mediation pathway with a student's sense of belonging and sense of mattering as mediating variables. A bootstrapping analysis was used to examine the mediation effects and found a significant mediation pathway from peer mentor nonverbal immediacy to intellectual risk taking through belongingness. The mediation pathway through a student's sense of mattering was not significant. However, there was a positive correlation from mattering to IRT, indicating that a student's sense of mattering is important for fostering IRT. This thesis highlights the implications of these findings and recommendations for future research.

Item Type:	Thesis (Bachelor)
Supervisor name:	Dalley, S.E.
Degree programme:	Psychology
Differentiation route:	None [Bachelor Psychology]
Date Deposited:	08 Jul 2025 11:43
Last Modified:	08 Jul 2025 11:51
URI:	http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/5358

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