The Investigation And Intervention Study On The Academic Emotions Of Vocational Students

Academic emotions refer to all the students’ emotions during their study. Academic emotions include the experience of emotion after knowing the result of their study, success or failure, the experience of emotion in classroom, the experience of emotion when doing homework and the experience of emotion when preparing for the test and so on. These emotions may involve all aspects of students’ study. What′s more, they play a very important role in the process of students’ growing up and development. Based on the summary of previous studies of academic emotions at home and abroad, this research takes some students of grade 1 and grade 2 in a vocational school in Shanghai as the study objects. It investigates the characteristics of their academic emotion. On the basis of analyzing the results of the investigation, the paper designs an intervention scheme to improve the students’ academic emotions by enhancing their self-awareness of study achievements, which is proved effective through experiment. The results are listed in the following.(1) Academic emotions experience of vocational students is plentiful and the average score on the level of positive high-arousal academic emotions is the highest.(2) As for the academic emotions of vocational students, there exist significant differences in the contextual variables in many respects such as gender, grade, major, types of the students etc.(3) Academic self-concept and academic emotions of secondary vocational school students are co-related to each other. Academic self-concept on positive academic emotions has significant positive predictive value, and on negative emotions has significant negative predictive value.(4) The intervention program to improve academic self-concept and to improve negative academic emotions of vocational students plays prominent role in the promotion of vocational students’ academic emotions.In conclusion, academic emotions experience of vocational students is plentiful and the positive experience is higher. There are significant differences in the academic emotion between different groups. Improving self-concept has certain positive effect on the vocational students` academic emotions.