The Effect of Peer Support on Undergraduates’ Intellectual Risk-taking: The Mediating Role of Anxiety

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Abstract

Intellectual risk-taking refers to students' willingness to not be afraid of making mistakes and failing in their learning.In this study, 106 undergraduate students, from a province were given questionnaires, in order to explore the relationship between peer support and intellectual risk-taking under the empirical study with anxiety as the mediating variable. The final results are as follows: 1) There is a significant positive correlation between peer support and the intellectual risk-taking of college students; 2) Anxiety, as an intermediary variable, impacts the relationship between the independent and dependent variables and is negatively correlated with both the independent variable (peer support) and the dependent variable (intellectual risk-taking).
Keywords: peer support, intellectual risk-taking,anxiety

Authors

• Jitong Zhao, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics

• Jintao Qu, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics