Beyond math anxiety: Positive emotions predict mathematics achievement, self-regulation, and self-efficacy

• Main Authors: Villavicencio, Felicidad T., Bernardo, Allan Benedict I.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2016
• Subjects: Anxiety; Math anxiety; Academic achievement; Emotions; Pride and vanity; Self-efficacy; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3958
• Institution: De La Salle University

Research on the affective dimensions of mathematics learning and achievement has tended to focus on negative emotions and on mathematics anxiety in particular, with much less work on positive emotions. Drawing from a positive education perspective, we aim to contribute to the growing literature on p...