Author(s)

Xin Ruiqing ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, 730030, Gansu, China

Corresponding Author

Xin Ruiqing

ABSTRACT

To explore the improvement path of college students' sense of learning gain from the perspective of Positive Psychology, this study took 1,200 undergraduates from 20 colleges and universities of different levels and types across the country as research subjects. Data were collected using stratified random sampling and scale method, and the chain mediating model was tested by SPSS and PROCESS macro program. The results showed that the three core themes of Positive Psychology (positive social relationships, positive personal traits, positive subjective experiences) were highly consistent with students’ sense of learning gain, forming a logic of "external support → internal drive → experience generation"; positive social relationships not only had a direct positive predictive effect on sense of learning gain, but also influenced it through two indirect paths: "social relationships → personal traits → sense of gain" and "social relationships → personal traits → subjective experiences → sense of gain", with the chain mediating path having a more significant effect; "teacher support", "perseverance" and "sense of learning achievement" had the most prominent impact on sense of gain. The study put forward improvement strategies from the perspectives of environment, individual and experience, providing reference for optimizing teaching quality.

KEYWORDS

Positive Psychology, College Students' Sense of Learning Gain, Chain Mediating Model, Positive Social Relationships, Positive Personal Traits, Positive Subjective Experiences

CITE THIS PAPER

Xin Ruiqing, Study on the Improvement Path of College Students' Sense of Learning Gain from the Perspective of Positive Psychology. Applied & Educational Psychology (2025) Vol. 6: 98-106. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2025.060314.

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