The longitudinal associations among student externalizing behaviors, teacher-student relationships, and classroom engagement.

Personal characteristics and classroom environment features both play important roles in predicting students' levels of classroom engagement. The present study took a person-environment transaction perspective to investigate how factors at both the personal (i.e.

When anxiety becomes my propeller: Mental toughness moderates the relation between academic anxiety and academic avoidance.

Background: High academic anxiety is associated with poor academic performance. One proposed mechanism of this association is that academic anxiety promotes learning avoidance behaviours, which in turn hinders students' opportunities to learn and grow. However, this proposition has not been thoroughly examined, particularly in afterschool learning settings.