Cohort effects on activity emotions are minimal across fourteen years, with cohort accounting for only 0.2% to 1.2% of variance in mean emotion scores¶

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q2 i? Mean levels of learning-related emotions were temporally stable across 2010/2011–2023/2024 cohorts, including pre-, during, and post-COVID periods. → Dirk Tempelaar · Alexandra Niculescu 2026

Evidence¶

Dirk Tempelaar · Alexandra Niculescu 2026¶

Dirk Tempelaar · Alexandra Niculescu. (2026). Testing the Relative Universalism of Psychological Theories: A Person-Centered Analysis of Control-Value Theory. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-026-10155-2

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Descriptive analysis of fourteen cohorts' mean activity-emotion scores (Fig. 2). The article reports Enjoyment slightly above the neutral midpoint, Anxiety slightly below, and that the pattern "persists across pre-COVID (2018–2019), COVID (2020–2021), and post-COVID (2022–2023) periods."

"Year-to-year fluctuations are minimal, with cohort accounting for only 0.2% (Hopelessness) to 1.2% (Enjoyment) of the variance in mean scores— indi -cating a high degree of temporal stability."

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