Teacher-Student Relationship and Academic Engagment Adolescent: The Mediating Role of Sense of School Belonging

Academic engagement is one of the multifaceted constructs that affect students' academic performance. The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of a sense of belonging in the relationship between teacher-student Relationship and academic engagement. The method of the present study was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of this study consisted of all the students of the first secondary level of Mashhad city in 1400-1401, 360 of whom (251 girls and 109 boys) were selected as a sample using the multi-stage cluster random sampling method. Data collection tools included academic engagement Reev (2013) RAEQ, the student-teacher relationship questionnaire Murray & Zvoch (2011) IT-SR, and the school of Belonging questionnaire of  Brew & Et.al (2004). The collected data were analyzed using the Structural Equation Model. The results showed that the research model is approved in terms of significance and fit indicators and The teacher-student relationship variable indirectly affects academic engagement through the sense of belonging to the school. The direct effect of teacher-student relationships on academic engagement was not significant. Based on this, the sense of belonging to the school can play a mediating role between the teacher-student relationship and academic engagement.