Changes in Chinese students' academic emotions after examinations: Pride in success, shame in failure, and self-loathing in comparison.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several attempts have been made to examine students' academic emotions (AEs) in Western contexts, but less is known about how students' self-reported emotions vary over time.

Aims

The study aimed to understand Chinese students' emotional responses to academic events and the impact of high-stakes testing on their AEs in the first year with a repeated-measures survey after the Semester 1 and Semester 2 mid-term examinations.

Samples

351 first-year university students completed both surveys in an elite Chinese university, where the top 10% of first-year students were assigned to an honours programme.

Methods

Self-reported AEs survey responses were evaluated with confirmatory factor analysis. Invariance testing between honours and ordinary students and b

SUBMITTER: Fang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10091958 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature