ArticleBMC psychology2025
Exploring pathways to academic engagement: a SEM analysis of self-compassion, social support, and stress management among Chinese university students.
Article in BMC psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Article
- The two correlations between Academic Stress and Subjective Academic Achievement: the mediating roles of Emotion Regulation and Cognitive Decline, and the moderating role of Mind Wandering.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Dynamic relationships among first-year university students' critical thinking, academic self-concept, and student engagement: a cross-lagged study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The influence of risk perception in mountaineering on re-participation intentions: a moderated mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Cyber-ostracism and academic engagement among Chinese university students: a three-wave longitudinal study of mediating and moderating mechanisms.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Associations between social support and help-seeking intention regarding music performance anxiety among Chinese music students: mediation via resilience and self-compassion.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This study investigated the relationships between self-compassion, social support, stress management, and academic engagement among Chinese university students using a cross-sectional design and structural equation modeling (SEM). A total of 389 students from various undergraduate programs at two universities in major Chinese cities participated in the study. The results revealed that self-compassion and social support had significant positive direct effects on academic engagement. Furthermore, self-compassion and social support also exerted significant indirect effects on academic engagement through stress management, highlighting the mediating role of stress management in this relationship. These findings suggest that interventions aimed at enhancing self-compassion and social support may be beneficial for promoting academic engagement among university students by fostering better stress management skills.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.