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Peer relationship is an important part of college students' study and life. The communication and interaction between college students and their peers can not only promote their own development, but also hinder their development. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the effects of peer relationships of college students on academic achievement to understand the current situation of peer relationships and academic performance, and analyze whether students peer relationship can affect students' academic performance, students' peer relationship quality on the academic performance of college students can play a predictive role, or to what extent we can predict the academic performance. This paper first defines the related concepts of peer relationship and academic performance through the summary of related literature, and puts forward the related theoretical basis, and what aspects of the current research are mainly focused on. Then combined with the results of empirical research, this paper analyzes the actual situation of peer relationship, academic engagement and academic performance of college students studying in HEZE university. And we do the descriptive analysis, measurement model analysis and structural equation model analysis to these situations. Finally, it summarizes the peer relationship academic engagement and academic performance of college students, and puts forward some suggestions.
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