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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.

Sec. Educational Psychology

Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1615370

This article is part of the Research TopicEmotional Intelligence in Educational Psychology: Enhancing Learning and DevelopmentView all 22 articles

The Impact of Student Psychological Empowerment on Class Stickiness

Provisionally accepted
Hongping  FeiHongping FeiJunhui  ZhangJunhui Zhang*Weilin  XiangWeilin Xiang*Haifeng  QiHaifeng Qi*
  • East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

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This study extends the concept of customer engagement from the field of marketing to the educational context, exploring the impact mechanisms of student psychological empowerment, psychological ownership, and student engagement on Class Stickiness, and further analyzing the role of Class Stickiness in student classroom evaluation. The empirical research method was employed to test the research model. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and second-order factor analysis revealed that student psychological empowerment, psychological ownership, and student engagement all significantly and positively influence Class Stickiness, which in turn significantly enhances student classroom evaluation.

Keywords: Student Engagement1, Psychological Empowerment2, Psychological Ownership3, Class Stickiness4, Customer Engagement5

Received: 21 Apr 2025; Accepted: 20 Oct 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Fei, Zhang, Xiang and Qi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence:
Junhui Zhang, polaris428@163.com
Weilin Xiang, xiangwl@ecust.edu.cn
Haifeng Qi, macintosh7@163.com

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