The Development Of Children Academic Emotions Questionnaire And Its Status

Academic emotions refer to students'achievement emotions experienced in school or university settings. The domain of academic emotions covers not only students'achievement emotions relating to success and failure but also emotions relating to the process of studying. According to valence and arousal dimensions, academic emotions include positive - high arousal emotions, positive - low arousal emotions, negative - high arousal emotions and negative - low arousal emotions. An effective academic emotions questionnaire was developed basing on theoretical considerations and interview results of pupils in Shanghai.Through surveying pupils in Shanghai, the study explored the characteristics of academic emotions of pupils. First, significant effects of gender in pupils were not found. Second, significant effects of grade in pupils were found. And pupils in grade 2 had more positive academic emotions and less negative academic emotions than the ones in other grades, pupils in grade 4 and 5 had more negative academic emotions and less positive academic emotions than the ones in grade 2 and 3. Third, pupils in good school had more positive academic emotions than the ones in common schools; but there were no differences in negative academic emotions they experienced. Fourth, boys with learning disabilities had more positive academic emotions and less negative academic emotions than girls with learning disabilities. There were differences in academic emotions between students with learning disabilities and normal students in grade 2 and 3. The pupils with learning disabilities in grade 2 experienced more hope than the ones in grade 5. Pupils with learning disabilities in grade 4 and 5 had more negative academic emotions than the normal students in the same grade, such as hate and disappointment, and they experienced less positive academic emotions than the normal students in the same grade, such as relief.According to result, I started a series of group counseling for the negative academic emotion of the fourth grade students, results showed that counseling worked well.Based on the analysis of the characteristics and influence factors of academic emotions,some suggestions were given, which may help teachers in practice and be also served as reference to other researches in this field.