The impact of self-compassionate mindfulness on online learning behavioral engagement of international students during COVID-19: Positive emotion and self-improvement motivation as mediators

The impact of self-compassionate mindfulness on online learning behavioral engagement of international students during COVID-19: Positive emotion and self-improvement motivation as mediators

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Focusing on the domain of self-compassion, this study explored the promotion mechanism of online learning behavioral lycogel engagement (OLBE) of international students in China under COVID-19.Positive emotion and self-improvement motivation were selected as mediators.Participants were 606 international students from 8 countries who were studying online in their own countries due to the international travel restriction of COVID-19.

Results showed positive read more emotion and self-improvement motivation completely mediated self-compassionate mindfulness (SCM) and OLBE of international students.Positive emotion and self-improvement partially mediated SCM and OLBE of international students respectively.Students with higher SCM engage with online learning more in that they possess more positive emotion and self-improvement motivation.

This study suggested that SCM may facilitate OLBE via positive emotion and effective self-improvement motivation.