The Influence of Academic Emotions on Learning Effects: A Systematic Review

Jing Tan, Jie Mao, Yizhang Jiang and Ming Gao
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Jing Tan: College of Sports Engineering and Information Technology, Wuhan Sport University, Wuhan 430079, China
Jie Mao: College of Sports Engineering and Information Technology, Wuhan Sport University, Wuhan 430079, China
Yizhang Jiang: School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
Ming Gao: College of Sports Science and Technology, Wuhan Sports University, Wuhan 430205, China

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 18, 1-19

Abstract: Academic emotions can have different influences on learning effects, but these have not been systematically studied. In this paper, we objectively evaluate the influence of various academic emotions on learning effects and studied the relationship between positive and negative academic emotions and learning effects by using five electronic databases, including WOS, EMBASE, PubMed, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar. According to established standards, a total of 14 articles from 506 articles were included in the analysis. We divided the 14 studies into nine intervention studies and five observational studies; five of the nine intervention studies found that students who used active learning materials performed better and had higher mental loads than those who used neutral learning materials. Positive academic emotions promoted the learning effect. Four of the five observational studies with high school, college, and postgraduate participants reported that regulating academic emotions can improve learning effects. In conclusion, this paper holds that positive academic emotions are better than negative academic emotions at improving academic performance. In future research, a new method combining multichannel video observation, physiological data, and facial expression data is proposed to capture learners’ learning behavior in various learning environments.

Keywords: academic emotions; learning effects; facial expressions; cognitive; systematic review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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