The Effect of Perceived School Environment on School Adjustment in Elementary Students: The Moderated Mediation Effect of Failure Tolerance

Key Points

• The research aims to explore how elementary students' perceptions of their school environment influence their school adjustment through academic stress and autonomy, moderated by failure tolerance.
• Analyzed data from 1,315 elementary students from the 12th Korean Child Panel (2019) using Hayes' models 1, 4, and 14.
• Focused on the moderated mediation effects of failure tolerance in the relationships among school environment, academic stress, autonomy, and school adjustment.
• The perceived school environment has a positive effect on school adjustment through academic stress and autonomy.
• Moderating effects of academic failure tolerance were confirmed in the relationship between academic stress and school adjustment, as well as between autonomy and school adjustment.
• The moderated mediation effect of academic failure tolerance was significant, indicating that a supportive school environment positively impacts school adjustment only at higher levels of failure tolerance.

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