Achievement emotions in kindergarten: the association of solution accuracy with discrete joy, sadness, and surprise.

ABSTRACT: Children experience a variety of emotions in achievement settings. Yet, mathematics-related emotions other than anxiety are understudied, especially for young children entering primary school. The current study reports the prevalence and intensity of six basic, discrete achievement emotions (joy/happiness, sadness, surprise, anger, fear, and disgust) expressed on the faces of 15 kindergarten-aged children as they solved increasingly complex arithmetic story problems in a 3-month teaching experiment. We also examine how the extent to which the expressed emotions influenced arithmetic accuracy at the end of an instructional session at the beginning, middle, and end of the teaching experiment. Through the application of FaceReader9, the three most intensely expressed emotions at the la

SUBMITTER: Kutaka TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11770055 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature