Ishwari, Nadia (2025) Mechanisms of Teacher Nonverbal Immediacy on Academic Self-Efficacy: The Roles of Belonging and Mattering as Mediators? Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The research detailed in this paper proposed two mediation pathways to explain the possible mechanism of how nonverbal immediacy affects academic self-efficacy, one mediated through belongingness and another mediated through mattering. This examination of mechanisms was intended to provide insight on how to improve teaching effectiveness. The relationship between nonverbal immediacy with belongingness and mattering, as well as the unique contributions of belongingness and mattering towards general academic self-efficacy were examined by means of a survey through the platform Qualtrics conducted among 227 first year students enrolled in the psychology bachelor’s degree of the University of Groningen who are enrolled in the academic skills course, these participants were collected through the SONA system put in place by the university. The correlations between each variable were evaluated using a bootstrapping process on the multiple potential mediation pathways. Support was found for the mediation pathway of belongingness for the relationship between nonverbal immediacy with general academic self-efficacy. However, no support was found for the mediation pathway of mattering for the relationship between nonverbal immediacy with general academic self-efficacy. The significance of the belongingness mediation pathway suggest that teachers need to focus on immediacy behaviors that make students feel that they belong. Suggestions for future research involve examining the relationship of the current variables with verbal immediacy, and to.compare it with non-verbal immediacy, as well as replications in other samples for better generalizability.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
|---|---|
| Supervisor name: | Dalley, S.E. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2025 15:05 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2025 15:05 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/5445 |
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