Classroom Climate and the Basic Psychological Needs of Students in Special Education: The Moderating Role of Anxiety and Gender
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT This study investigated the associations between classroom climate dimensions (academic support, emotional support, and classroom organization) and basic psychological need satisfaction in students with special educational needs (SEN). It also examined whether anxiety symptoms and gender moderate these associations. Students in Grades 5 and 6 ( N = 365; 59.3% boys) provided self‐reports on classroom climate and need satisfaction. Child anxiety was assessed via parent report. Multivariate linear regression models were performed, controlling for child age, household income, and school socioeconomic index, and included interaction terms for classroom climate dimensions, anxiety, and gender. Findings indicate that all dimensions of classroom climate were significantly associated with greater satisfaction of basic psychological needs. The positive association between academic support and the need for relatedness was stronger at higher levels of anxiety, suggesting that academic support may be particularly important for the sense of belonging of these students. No significant interactions with gender were found. Our findings carry important practical implications for teachers, highlighting the need to enhance academic support, emotional support, and classroom organization to foster the psychological need satisfaction of students with SEN. These implications extend to both classroom practices (e.g., practical strategies and adaptations) and opportunities for professional development.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".