ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Educational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1682570
An empirical study of online virtual community to promote college students' learning adaptability improvement --Based on the mediation of self-efficacy
Provisionally accepted
- China West Normal University, Nanchong, China
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As the development of digital spaces, exemplified by university online virtual communities, continues to advance, enhancing students' learning adaptation within these virtual environments to improve online learning quality has become a widely studied topic in academia. Therefore, this study employs self-efficacy theory to construct a behavioral model of how students' self-efficacy in online virtual communities influences learning adaptation. Using university students engaged in teaching activities within virtual communities as the research subjects, it conducts a questionnaire survey to test differences in learning adaptation levels among students with varying durations of virtual community participation. Subsequently, regression analysis is applied to explore the relationship between online learning self-efficacy and learning adaptation levels. Results indicate that learners exhibit higher levels of self-efficacy within online virtual communities, with self-efficacy showing a significant positive correlation with learning adaptability. Based on these findings, strategies and recommendations for leveraging online virtual communities to enhance learning adaptability are proposed.
Keywords: Online virtual community, self-efficacy, Learning adaptability, higher education, Online Learning
Received: 09 Aug 2025; Accepted: 14 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Xiang, Yang and Hou. 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: Qinghan Yang, 19915608581@stu.cwnu.edu.cn
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