Emotional support, social goals, and classroom behavior: A multilevel, multisite study.

We examined the mediating role of students’ interpersonal and academically related social goals in linking students’ perceptions of teacher and peer personal and academic emotional supports to their classroom behavior (prosocial, social responsibility) in a sample of young adolescents (n = 3,092) from 7 schools from the mid-Atlantic, Midwest, and Southwest regions of the United States. We tested models at the student level (Level 1) and the...