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Seeking effective school and family supports for adolescents' curiosity in learning: A cross-country comparison among China, the USA and Finland.
| Τίτλος: | Seeking effective school and family supports for adolescents' curiosity in learning: A cross-country comparison among China, the USA and Finland. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Huang H; Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.; Basic Educational Data Governance and Policy Intelligence Lab, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China., Hu P; Faculty of Education and Psychology, Hubei Engineering University, Xiaogan, China., Ali F; National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore., Salmela-Aro K; Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland., Tang X; School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. |
| Πηγή: | The British journal of educational psychology [Br J Educ Psychol] 2026 Sep; Vol. 96 (3), pp. 1140-1161. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Mar 13. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article; Comparative Study |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 0370636 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2044-8279 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00070998 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Br J Educ Psychol Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Publication: <2012-> : Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell Original Publication: Edinburgh : Scottish Academic Press |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Exploratory Behavior*/physiology , Adolescent Behavior*/psychology , Adolescent Behavior*/ethnology , Students*/psychology , Cross-Cultural Comparison* , Schools* , Learning* , Social Support*, Humans ; Finland ; China ; United States ; Female ; Adolescent ; Male ; Child ; Family Support |
| Περίληψη: | Background: Curiosity in learning is a driving force for students' knowledge acquisition and academic achievement, yet its declining trend during adolescence has been observed across multiple countries. Aims: This study aimed to identify key supports for adolescents' learning curiosity across countries by examining the associations of learning curiosity with psychological need-based supports from family and school and further comparing the effectiveness of these supports across three countries. Method: Representative samples of 19,161 adolescents aged 10 and 15 from the OECD Social and Emotional Skills Study were selected in the study (7246 in China, 6433 in the USA and 5482 in Finland), and hierarchical linear modelling was adopted for analysis. Results: (1) Relatedness supports, especially sense of school belongingness, stood out as the most effective factor for curiosity in learning, followed by parents' autonomy support and teachers' competence; (2) startling differences were observed between China and the other two countries: among Chinese adolescents, sense of school belonging and parental autonomy support were vital for learning curiosity, whereas in the USA and Finland, emotional supports from parents and teachers played more essential roles than the same supports in China; and (3) parents' academic communication showed modest effects on only Finnish adolescents' learning curiosity. Conclusion: By uncovering both cross-national similarities and differences in the key curiosity facilitators, findings provide crucial insights into adolescents' learning curiosity stimulation in family and school contexts across diverse national settings. (© 2026 British Psychological Society.) |
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| Grant Information: | BBA250055 National Fund of Philosophy and Social Science of China for Educational Science |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: cross‐national comparison; ecological perspective; learning curiosity; needs‐based support; self‐determination theory |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20260314 Date Completed: 20260805 Latest Revision: 20260813 |
| Update Code: | 20260813 |
| PubMed Central ID: | PMC13441005 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/bjep.70071 |
| PMID: | 41826273 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 2044-8279 |
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| DOI: | 10.1111/bjep.70071 |