Enjoyment relates positively and shame, anxiety, and boredom relate negatively to political knowledge, but classroom climate is not significantly mediated via emotions for knowledge¶
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q3 i? At the within level, enjoyment relates positively to political knowledge while shame, anxiety, and boredom each relate negatively; indirect effects from classroom climate to knowledge via emotions are not significant. → Graf 2023
Evidence¶
Graf 2023¶
Graf, E., Stempfer, L., Muis, K. R., & Goetz, T. (2023). Classroom emotions in civic education: A multilevel approach to antecedents and effects. Draft version 1.0, University of Vienna / McGill University (not peer-reviewed preprint). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2023.101869
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Multilevel mediation models on knowledge (N = 1,117, 90 classes) with random slopes. The article reports the within-level paths above and states that "the effect of classroom climate on political knowledge was not significantly mediated via emotions" (Table 6 indirect effects with confidence intervals including zero).
"enjoyment related positively to political knowledge (R2w = .147), and all negative emotions (shame: R2w = .197, anxiety: R2w = .211, and boredom: R2w = .159) revealed a negative path to political knowledge at the within-level"
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Achievement Emotions — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
Related Claims¶
- Activating emotions (enjoyment, shame, anxiety) relate positively and boredom negatively to intended political participation, with a significant indirect effect of classroom climate via enjoyment — related
- Open classroom climate is positively related to enjoyment and negatively related to anxiety and boredom in civic education, with no relation to shame — related
- Climate-emotion associations and the enjoyment-participation indirect effect hold when controlling for topic emotions and discussion frequency, but some emotion-outcome paths do not — related
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Enjoyment relates positively and shame, anxiety, and boredom relate negatively to political knowledge, but classroom climate is not significantly mediated via emotions for knowledge |
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Enjoyment relates positively and shame, anxiety, and boredom relate negatively to political knowledge, but classroom climate is not significantly mediated via emotions for knowledge |
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