Salmi, Tiitu (2022) Peer Mentor’s Cognitively Congruent Teaching Style as a Factor in Student’s In-Class Engagement: A Moderated Mediation Analysis. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Peer mentoring can offer help, attention and guidance at the student’s required level. Certainly, research shows that peer mentoring has various positive outcomes within the academic and socioemotional domains. However, little research has been directed at investigating the processes behind increased engagement and motivation. Therefore, the current study investigates the mechanisms which influence in-class engagement behaviours within first-year psychology students. Based on the similarity theory and the Self-Determination theory, the proposed moderated mediation model predicts that trust mediates the relationship between cognitive congruence and in-class engagement. It is also proposed that this effect would be exacerbated for those students who have higher intercultural communication competencies (ICC). This cross-sectional study (N = 99) measured the student’s perceptions of cognitive congruence with the peer mentor, trust toward the peer mentor, the mentee’s intercultural communication competencies and the mentee’s behavioural in-class engagement. The results indicated no support for the suggested moderated mediation. Two mediation analyses were conducted to further explore the relationships between the identified variables. Cognitive congruence was found to be related to in-class engagement but trust did not mediate this effect. Additionally, significant relationships between cognitive congruence, ICC and trust were found. It is concluded that trust toward the peer mentor does not mediate the relationship between cognitive congruence and in-class engagement and this effect is not moderated by ICC. Possible explanations and implications are offered for these findings.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Dalley, S.E. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2022 08:41 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2022 08:41 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/969 |
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