Interest development: Arousing situational interest affects the growth trajectory of individual interest

• Main Authors: Schmidt, Henk G., Rotgans, Jerome Ingmar
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Individual interest; Four-phase model of interest development
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83326; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42532
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Interest has become a central topic in the educational-psychology literature and Hidi and Renninger’s (2006) four-phase model of interest development is its most recent manifestation. However, this model presently enjoys only limited empirical support. To contribute to our understanding of how indiv...