The Impact Of Just World Beliefs On Junior High School Students’ Academic Performance:the Mediating Role Of Gratitude And Resilience

The belief that the world in which people live is just,stable,orderly,and controllable,and that they get what they deserve in this world,is the just world belief.Gratitude refers to the feeling of gratitude generated when receiving favors from others.The same kind of return is made for the favors received,reflecting the fairness of the return.For junior high school students,psychological resilience refers to the ability of students to adapt to common adversities in study and life.Junior high school is a golden age for students to learn,as well as a key period for students to develop important psychological qualities such as faith in a just world,gratitude and mental resilience.Study of just world belief and academic achievements at home and abroad,gratitude and academic research,mental toughness and academic research,just world belief and gratitude research all have a small amount of references,but will just world belief,gratitude,mental toughness as the research variables,to explore the relationship between academic achievement and,scholars have not been studied.This research will be based on the reference of related literature in recent years,with high reliability and validity of the questionnaire of just world belief,"gratitude questionnaire" and "mental resilience scale",to some county in the dabie mountain area of boarding schools,995 junior high school students,the questionnaire survey to understand the junior middle school students just world belief,gratitude and mental toughness,discuss the influences of just world belief,junior high school students grades,and further explore the gratitude and mental toughness in the role of the relationship between the two.The results:(1)Junior high school students have a relatively positive belief in a just world,a certain degree of mental toughness and gratitude consciousness,and their overall performance is good.Junior middle school students have no significant gender difference in just world belief and gratitude,but have significant gender difference in mental toughness.(2)There is a significant correlation between the psychological resilience,the sense of gratitude and the belief of a just world,and there is a significant correlation between the academic performance of junior high school students and the belief of a just world,the sense of gratitude and the belief of a just world.(3)Just world belief significantly predicted resilience and gratitude;Belief in a just world,mental resilience and gratitude can significantly predict the academic performance of junior middle school students.(4)Gratitude and resilience played a mediating role in the relationship between belief in a just world and academic performance of junior high school students.