The Effect of Positive Emotion and Interpersonal Relationships to Adaptation of School Life on High School Athletic Class Students
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review and Conceptual Framework Development
2.1. The Relationship between Positive Emotions and Interpersonal Relationships
2.2. The Relationship between Positive Emotions and Adaptation of School Life
2.3. The Relationship between Interpersonal Relationships and Adaptation of School Life
2.4. The Mediating Effect of Interpersonal Relationships among Positive Emotions and Adaptation of School Life and Adaptation of School Life
3. Methods
3.1. Data Collection
3.2. Measurements
4. Results
4.1. Demographic Analysis Results
4.2. Hypotheses Tests
4.3. Explanatory Power
5. Discussion
5.1. The Relationship between Positive Emotions and Interpersonal Relationships
5.2. The Relationship between Positive Emotions and Adaptation of School Life
5.3. The Relationship between Interpersonal Relationships and Adaptation of School Life
5.4. The Mediating Effect of Interpersonal Relationships among Positive Emotions and Adaptation of School Life and Adaptation of School Life
6. Conclusions, Suggestions and Limitations
6.1. Conclusions
6.2. Suggestions
6.2.1. Suggestion for High School Administration
6.2.2. Suggestion for Future Research
6.2.3. Limitations
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. | 7. | 8. |
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1. Joy | 0.826 | |||||||
2. Satisfaction | 0.622 | 0.822 | ||||||
3. Flow | 0.610 | 0.509 | 0.797 | |||||
4. Social skills | 0.559 | 0.562 | 0.528 | 0.823 | ||||
5. Peer attachment | 0.556 | 0.473 | 0.600 | 0.646 | 0.825 | |||
6. Peer relationship | 0.570 | 0.493 | 0.627 | 0.674 | 0.790 | 0.830 | ||
7. Learning adjustment | 0.502 | 0.549 | 0.538 | 0.604 | 0.500 | 0.547 | 0.797 | |
8.Teacher-student relationship | 0.473 | 0.545 | 0.528 | 0.569 | 0.577 | 0.608 | 0.690 | 0.867 |
Composite reliability | 0.915 | 0.862 | 0.875 | 0.863 | 0.894 | 0.917 | 0.897 | 0.938 |
Cronbach’s α alpha | 0.882 | 0.759 | 0.808 | 0.761 | 0.841 | 0.887 | 0.855 | 0.917 |
Variable | Group | n | % | Variable | Group | n | % |
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Gender | male | 600 | 82.8 | Grade in school | Freshman | 287 | 39.6 |
Female | 125 | 17.2 | Sophomore | 226 | 31.2 | ||
Year of sport experience | 1 year | 38 | 5.2 | Senior | 212 | 29.2 | |
2–3 years. | 100 | 13.8 | Sport expertise | Ball sport (basketball, volleyball, baseball) | 446 | 61.5 | |
4–5 years | 167 | 23.0 | Choreography (cheerleading, gymnastics, ballroom dance) | 27 | 3.7 | ||
6 years and more | 420 | 57.9 | Equipment-requiring sport (archery, fencing, track and field) | 46 | 6.3 | ||
Competitive sports (taekwondo, judo, martial arts) | 206 | 28.4 |
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Chang, C.-F.; Hsieh, H.-H.; Huang, H.-C.; Huang, Y.-L. The Effect of Positive Emotion and Interpersonal Relationships to Adaptation of School Life on High School Athletic Class Students. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 6354. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176354
Chang C-F, Hsieh H-H, Huang H-C, Huang Y-L. The Effect of Positive Emotion and Interpersonal Relationships to Adaptation of School Life on High School Athletic Class Students. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(17):6354. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176354
Chicago/Turabian StyleChang, Chia-Fu, Huey-Hong Hsieh, Hsiu-Chin Huang, and Yu-Lan Huang. 2020. "The Effect of Positive Emotion and Interpersonal Relationships to Adaptation of School Life on High School Athletic Class Students" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 17: 6354. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176354