Mediation of academic self-efficacy between emotional intelligence and academic engagement in physical education undergraduate students Fernández Baños, Raúl Calleja Núñez, Juan José Espinoza Gutiérrez, Roberto Granero Gallegos, Antonio Engagement disaffection Emotional disaffection Emotional repair Emotional clarity University The aim of this study was to analyze academic self-efficacy as a mediator between emotional intelligence and academic engagement. A non-experimental, cross-sectional, correlational-causal study was designed in which 1,164 Mexican students participated (Mage = 21.21; SD = 3.26) (30.0% female; 69.6% male; 0.4% other). The scales of emotional intelligence, academic self-efficacy and academic engagement were used, and a structural equation analysis with latent variables was conducted. The results obtained demonstrate that emotional clarity and repair have a positive and direct effect on academic self-efficacy. In addition, emotional repair predicts behavioral and emotional engagement. It was also found that academic self-efficacy is an excellent mediator between emotional clarity and repair, and the dimensions of academic engagement, as it substantially improves behavioral and emotional engagement while decreasing behavioral and emotional disaffection 2023-09-25T07:56:37Z 2023-09-25T07:56:37Z 2023-07-14 journal article Baños R, Calleja-Núñez JJ, Espinoza-Gutiérrez R and Granero-Gallegos A (2023) Mediation of academic self-efficacy between emotional intelligence and academic engagement in physical education undergraduate students. Front. Psychol. 14:1178500. [doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1178500] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/84615 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1178500 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Frontiers