Browsing by Subject "Achievement emotion"

Objectives. Previous research has indicated that there is a reciprocal relationship between achievement emotions and mathematics achievement. Little is known about student profiles according to achievement emotions. The research tasks of the study were to identify achievement emotion profiles, its relation to mathematics, and possible differences in the profiles regarding emotions related to class, homework and test situation. The final research task was to examine whether the distribution of grade and sex differ in the profiles. Methods. This study used data from MathMot 2022. The sample (N = 1755) consisted of Finnish 3-4 grade students. The analyses were based on AEQ-ES questionnaire. The main analyses firstly identified achievement emotion profiles, and secondly contributed importantly by replicating the results of previous studies. The analyses were conducted using hierarchical and K-means clustering, and ANOVA in SPSS. Results and conclusions. There were three achievement emotion profiles: positive profile (36%), moderate profile (47%) and negative (bored) profile (17%). The profiles differed statistically significantly in mathematics, with small effect sizes. The profiles were observed to be similar when the class, homework and test situations were considered. Finally, grades 3 and 4 differed in the profile membership, as did boys and girls. The results and implications are discussed.