Investigating the content and correlates of undergraduate students' academic regrets.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The types of academic regrets that college students experience, characteristics of these regrets, and relations to motivational and emotional outcomes were investigated in two studies.

Methods

Study 1 (N = 152) explored the relations between students' most severe academic regret and outcomes in general university courses, whereas Study 2 (N = 128) explored these relations in the context of a large introductory computer science course.

Results

Across both studies, results suggested that students report various academic regrets. Generally, the types of regrets were unrelated to regret intensity, amounts of intrusive thoughts, or whether regrets were considered an omission or commission. Results further suggested that higher regret intensity wa

SUBMITTER: Ranellucci J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12043591 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature