Values Characteristics of Chinese College Students with Upper-Level Learning Engagement

Abstract

Current research on learning engagement has predominantly emphasized individual factors that influence the levels of engagement among college students. However, relationships between individual value preferences and learning engagement remain inadequately explored. This research aims to reveal the relationships between individual values preferences and degrees of learning engagement, and mainly focuses on the individual values preferences of Chinese college students with upper-level learning engagement. Data from 360 first-year Chinese college students majored in foreign languages in Northeast China supported a two-cluster of students based on different learning engagement levels. Comparing values preferences of students with upper-level learning engagement and those with lower-level learning engagement, the results showed that students with upper-level learning engagement assigned more importance to “Social Focus” values, “Openness to Change” values, benevolence, hedonism, which presents a promising opportunity for future research to explore the potential impact of values education on students’ learning engagement.