Application of sentence-level text analysis: The role of emotion in an experimental learning intervention.

ABSTRACT: This registered study aimed at testing the role of emotion in the intervention effect of an experimental intervention study in academic settings. Previous analyses of the National Study of the Learning Mindset (Yeager et al., 2019) showed that in a randomized controlled trial, high school students who were given the growth mindset intervention had, on average higher GPA than did students in the control condition. Previous analyses also showed that school achievement levels moderated the intervention effect. This study applied a sentence-level text analysis strategy to detect participants' attentional focus in five emotional dimensions (valence, arousal, dominance/control, approach-avoidant, and uncertainty) across three writing prompts students wrote during the intervention. Linear mixed m

SUBMITTER: Li M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8803271 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature