Beyond level of self-esteem: exploring the interplay of level, stability, and contingency of self-esteem, mediating factors, and academic achievement

Abstract Self-esteem plays a decisive role for students in achievement situations. However, it is still unclear how different self-esteem facets and their interactions influence academic which psychological mechanisms mediate these relationships. In Study 1, we investigated self-handicapping effort-management as mediators of the effects on 2 sample N = 600 university students, while examined test anxiety mediating variable 1052 school students. Path analyses revealed various relations between facets, learning strategies, anxiety, achievement. Moreover, were identified meaningful facets. Implications further research educational practice are discussed.