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ERIC Number: EJ1324920
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Jan
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
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Achievement Emotions and Academic Achievement: Reciprocal Relations and the Moderating Influence of Academic Buoyancy
Putwain, David W.; Wood, Peter; Pekrun, Reinhard
Journal of Educational Psychology, v114 n1 p108-126 Jan 2022
Control-value theory proposes that achievement emotions impact achievement, and that achievement outcomes (i.e., success and failure) reciprocally influence the development of achievement emotions. Academic buoyancy is an adaptive response to minor academic adversity, and might, therefore, offer protection from achievement being undermined by negative achievement emotions. At present, however, there is little empirical evidence for these hypothesized relations. In this study we examined reciprocal relations between three achievement emotions (enjoyment, boredom, and anxiety) and test performance in the context of mathematics, and whether academic buoyancy moderated relations between these emotions and test performance. Data were collected from 1,242 primary school students (mean age = 9.3 years) over 4 waves within 1 school year. Achievement emotions (T[subscript 1] and T[subscript 3]) and test performance (T[subscript 2] and T[subscript 4]) were measured alternately. Academic buoyancy was measured at T[subscript 3]. A structural equation model showed negative relations of anxiety to subsequent test performance and negative relations of test performance to subsequent anxiety. Test performance also predicted enjoyment and boredom, but not vice versa. A latent-interaction structural equation model showed buoyancy moderated relations between anxiety and test performance. Test performance was highest when anxiety was low and buoyancy high. Practitioners should consider using interventions to reduce anxiety and downstream effects on achievement.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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