Motivation and Emotion in Academic Achievement Settings: Examining Common Ground in Regulatory Strategies (Poster 9)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Eleven
  In Poster Session: Motivation, Antecedents, and Outcomes

Abstract

Research on students’ motivation and emotion suggests they share tremendous overlap. Consequently, their regulation may involve similar mechanisms as well, but integrative perspectives are lacking. This study examined common ground in motivation regulation (MR) and emotion regulation (ER) in academic settings. First, we analyzed overlap in regulatory strategies covered by MR and ER questionnaires. Next, we examined 1,466 university students’ potential use of various MR and ER strategies in a hypothetical study situation. As expected, MR and ER strategies overlap conceptually, and students’ deployment thereof depends more on specific characteristics of the regulation problem at hand (expectancy-/control- vs. value-related problems) than on framing the problem as motivational vs. emotional. Implications for integrative MR-ER frameworks and future research will be discussed.

Authors

• Kristina Stockinger, University of Augsburg
  Non-Presenting Author

• Ulrike Elisabeth Nett, Augsburg University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Markus Dresel, University of Augsburg
  Presenting Author