In open-ended responses to a national survey, about three-quarters of the feelings US high school students reported about school were negative, with tired, stressed, and bored the most frequent¶
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q2 i? 74.20% of feelings reported in open-ended survey responses were negative, and tired, stressed, and bored were the most frequently mentioned. → Moeller 2017
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Moeller 2017¶
Moeller, J., Brackett, M. A., Ivcevic, Z., & White, A. E. (2017). High school students' feelings: Discoveries from a large national survey and an experience sampling study. Preprint / self-archived. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=High+school+students%E2%80%99+feelings+Moeller+Brackett+Ivcevic+White
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Online national survey (N = 21,678 US students, grades 9-12, all 50 states) asked students to list up to three typical school feelings; answers were coded into 480 categories with valence classified by two researchers (91.10% agreement). The survey found "74.20% of all ofthe feelings reported by students were negative".
"In the open-ended responses, 74.20% of all ofthe feelings reported by students were negative, 23.52% positive and 2.28% neutral or unclear valence."
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- In experience sampling during lessons, tired was the only feeling rated above the scale midpoint, and positive feelings (calm, happy, relaxed) ranked second to fourth, ahead of stressed and bored — related
- Study 2 replicated the open-ended findings: seven of the ten most frequently mentioned feelings were the same across both studies, including tired, stressed, and bored as the three most frequent negative feelings — related
- Open-ended feeling reports were validated against rating scales: students who mentioned a feeling rated it and its opposite significantly differently, with moderate-to-large effects (0.44 ≤ |d| ≤ 1.50) — related
- On retrospective rating scales, US high school students reported feeling stressed 79.83% and bored 69.51% of the time, with positive feelings (46.60%) slightly exceeding negative feelings (40.67%) — related
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In open-ended responses to a national survey, about three-quarters of the feelings US high school students reported about school were negative, with tired, stressed, and bored the most frequent |
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In open-ended responses to a national survey, about three-quarters of the feelings US high school students reported about school were negative, with tired, stressed, and bored the most frequent |
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