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A1 Fan, Weihua. A2 Lindt, Suzanne F. A2 Arroyo-Giner, Christina A. A2 Wolters, Christopher A. AB This research first examined whether 10th graders' close friends' academic valuing, teacher support and parent-student communication influenced student academic self-efficacy and whether student academic self-efficacy linked to student achievement. All three constructs positively predicted the sense of academic self-efficacy in both math and English. A positive link between students’ academic self-efficacy and students’ achievement was found. In addition, utilizing the multiple-indicator multiple-cause (MIMIC) modeling approach, we assessed and detected the factorial mean non invariance of student’s academic self-efficacy across groups based on student gender, school sector and school urban city. Further researches exploring the motivation gaps among students are needed. (Published abstract) http://search.shamaa.org/abstract_en.gif ID 042719 OP pp.34-53 T1 The role of social relationships in promoting student academic self-efficacy and MIMIC approaches to assess factorial mean invariance [Article]