Exploring social support: How sources and types relate to academic self-perception and emotions in primary school students
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Social support plays a crucial role in students' academic and emotional experiences, offering reassurance and guidance from different sources. Very few studies have separated the sources and types of support to analyze their respective influences. The purpose of this study is to identify the most frequently perceived types of support (i.e., emotional, informational, instrumental and appraisal) from different sources (i.e., parents, teachers and classmates), and to analyze which types of support are associated with academic self-perceived competence and classroom emotions. This study examine the perceived social support of 666 primary school students using the Child and Adolescent Social Support Scale (CASSS, Malecki & Demaray, 2002). The results show that students primarily perceived emotional and informational support from parents, informational support from teachers, and emotional and instrumental support from their classmates. Multilevel regression analyses reveal that classmate support is associated with all outcome variables, whereas parental support predicts self-perceived competence and anxiety. Teacher instrumental support predicts only joy and boredom. These findings highlight the importance of distinguishing between sources and types of support when examining their relationships with student outcomes. • Students perceive different types of support from parents, teachers and classmates • The type and source of support are differently related to emotions in class and the academic self-perception of competence • Parental and classmate support relate to most variables studied while teacher support seems to play a less significant role
Source: Acta Psychologica
Authors: Marine Hascoët, Catherine Audrin
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,670
OpenAlex ID: W4414168916