ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Educational Psychology
This article is part of the Research TopicAttachment Theory in Educational PsychologyView all 6 articles
Unpacking the Effect of Teacher Education Students' Social-Emotional Competence on Classroom Participation: A Configurational Analysis via fsQCA
Provisionally accepted
- Fuzhou University of International Studies and Trade, Fuzhou, China
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Classroom participation of University students has been a topic of great interest to educational researchers and university faculty alike.The purpose of this study is to decompose the effects of university students' social-emotional competence on classroom participation through fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), that is to say, to explore how combinations of university students' social-emotional competence components affects their classroom participation. Questionnaires were used to collect information from 172 teacher education students', and fsQCA was used to explore the complex causal relationships between their social-emotional competence and classroom participation. It was found that three configurations of social-emotional competence can lead to high classroom participation, and within each of these configurations, the core conditions are self-awareness, relationship skills, and self-management.
Keywords: teacher education students, social-emotional competence, Decomposing effect, Classroom participation, Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)
Received: 02 Sep 2025; Accepted: 14 Nov 2025.
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* Correspondence: Xiaofang Ma, maxiaofang@fzfu.edu.cn
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