The Mediating Effect of Writing Self-efficacy between the Second Language Motivational Self-system and Writing Skills from the Perspective of Personality Psychology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jhet.202415327

Author(s)

Wei Tian1, Jian Xiong2, Ruiyi Hou3,*

Affiliation(s)

1Department of foreign languages, Guangxi Science & Technology Normal University, Laibin, Guangxi, China 2Department of Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China 3Department of foreign languages, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, England *Corresponding Author.

Abstract

This study utilizes AMOS to test the mediating effect of writing self-efficacy between the second language motivational self system and writing skills. The study finds that: 1) second language ideal self has a significant predictive effect on writing self-efficacy (P=***<0.05); 2) second language ought to has no significant predictive effect on writing self-efficacy (P=0.470>0.05); 3) second language learning experience has a significant predictive effect on writing self-efficacy (P=0.03<0.05); 4) writing self-efficacy can significantly predict writing skills (P=***<0.05); 5) writing self-efficacy has a partial mediating effect between the second language motivational self-system and writing skills.

Keywords

Motivational Self-system; Writing Self-efficacy; Structural Equation Modeling; Language Acquisition

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