The Role of Academic Emotions in Learning: Addressing Student Motivation, Performance, and Learning Strategies

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Emotions are inherently connected with and affect cognitive skills such as attention, memory, and problem solving, all of which play a critical role in learning. Emotions are also one of the driving forces behind motivation. The school setting creates a context for various emotional experiences that have the potential to influence the educational process. These diverse emotions influence students’ motivation to persist, performance, and strategies for learning. Two important dimensions describing emotions are valence and activation. Regarding valence, enjoyment can be distinguished from anxiety. Concerning activation, activating excitement can be differentiated from deactivating relaxation. By grouping affective states as positive or negative, and as activating or deactivating, the circumplex can be remodeled into a 2 × 2 taxonomy involving four broad categories of emotions. Emotions are not only biologically determined but also shaped by one’s culture. In addition, while there is evidence that men and women differ in their experience of emotions, gender has often been overlooked as an important variable in academic emotions research. Therefore, our vision for this review was to provide a comprehensive scholarly overview of the current state of research in the area, while also challenging our readers with new directions for future scholarship on academic emotions.

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