ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Psychology in Education
Research on the Influence Mechanism of College Students' Sense of Academic Value Based on LDA and SEM
Provisionally accepted
- 1Xihua University, Chengdu, China
- 2Yibin Xihua University Research Institute, Yibin, China
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College students' sense of academic value is related to personal growth, higher education and social development. Studying its influencing factors and mechanisms can help improve academic performance and physical and mental health. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the sense of academic value of contemporary college students and its influence mechanism. This study adopted a mixed-methods approach, grounded in social cognitive theory and self-determination theory. It first gathered genuine perspectives from university students through open-ended questionnaires, utilised the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model to extract thematic variables, and thereby proposed a research model for examining students' sense of academic value. A questionnaire survey was then conducted and the data were quantitatively analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling. The findings reveal how academic self-efficacy, social support, learning social responsibility, academic achievement value and self-regulated learning strategy affect college students' sense of academic value. Combined with the results of cohort analysis, a more targeted approach to enhance college students' sense of academic value is proposed. This study will enrich the cognitive framework on academic motivation in the field of educational psychology, provide theoretical basis and decision support for higher education institutions to formulate policies and measures to enhance college students' sense of academic value, and promote the sustainability of higher education.
Keywords: College students1, educational psychology5, Latent Dirichlet Allocation mode3, sense of academic value2, structural equation modeling4
Received: 06 Aug 2025; Accepted: 03 Feb 2026.
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* Correspondence: Yang Liao
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