163071 20251009133840.0 doi 10.1177/21582440251342522 sideral 145550 ART-2025-145550 eng Usán Supervía, Pablo Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-3789-3781 The Mediating Role of Academic Goal Orientations in the Relationship Between Empathy and Subjective Happiness in Adolescent Students 2025 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The subjective wellbeing of students is a key aspect of their personal and academic development, especially during adolescence, a period in which numerous variables that shape personality and academic performance converge. This study aims to analyse the relationship between empathy and subjective happiness and the possible mediating role of goal orientations (achievement and ego) in secondary school students. The study comprised 1,664 participants from eight secondary schools. The instruments used were the Basic Empathy Scale (BES), the Perception of Success Questionnaire (POSQ), and the Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS), validated and adapted for the teenage population. The results revealed differences by gender in task orientation and a significant correlation between empathy, task orientation and subjective happiness, as well as the positive mediating role of task orientation between empathy and subjective happiness, in line with adaptive behaviours; ego orientation was, in contrast, negatively correlated with empathy and subjective happiness. Academic goal orientation (task and ego) in teenage students plays a central role in the promotion of adaptive behaviours, empathy and subjective wellbeing, which are key factors in their personal and academic development. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ/JIUZ2022-CSJ-22 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Castellanos-Vega, Reina Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-7484-0262 Urbón Ladrero, Eva Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-0566-5680 Salavera Bordás, Carlos Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-8072-2390 Sánchez-García, Julia Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-8059-0327 4009 620 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Psicología y Sociología Área Metod.Ciencias Comportam. 4009 735 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Psicología y Sociología Área Psicolog.Evolut.Educac 15, 3 (2025), [14 pp.] SAGE Open SAGE Open 2158-2440 554537 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/163071/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2395814 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/163071/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:163071 articulos driver 2025-10-09-13:25:51 ARTICLE