Higher education students’ achievement emotions and their antecedents in e-learning amid COVID-19 pandemic : a multi-country survey

Raccanello, Daniela (author), Keržič, Damijana (author), Ravšelj, Dejan (author), Tomaževič, Nina (author), Umek, Lan (author), Aristovnik, Aleksander (author)

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a wide range of negative consequences for higher education students. We explored the generalizability of the control-value theory of achievement emotions for e-learning, focusing on their antecedents. We involved 17019 higher education students from 13 countries, who completed an online survey during the first wave of the pandemic. A structural equation model revealed that proximal antecedents (e-learning self-efficacy, computer self-efficacy) mediated the relation between environmental antecedents (cognitive and motivational quality of the task) and positive and negative achievement emotions, with some exceptions. The model was invariant across country, area of study, and gender. The rates of achievement emotions varied according to these same factors. Beyond their theoretical relevance, these findings could be the basis for policy recommendations to support stakeholders in coping with the challenges of e-learning and the current and future sequelae of the pandemic.

• Language: English
• Keywords: COVID-19, achievement emotions, higher education students, e-learning, self-efficacy
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FU - Faculty of Administration
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 10 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 80, art. 101629
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-137018
• UDC: 35:378-057.875:37.018.43:004:616-036.22
• ISSN on article: 0959-4752
• DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2022.101629
• COBISS.SI-ID: 108402435
• Publication date in RUL: 29.05.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Learning and instruction
• Shortened title: Learn. instr.
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISSN: 0959-4752
• COBISS.SI-ID: 30637056

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• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: covid-19, čustva, dosežki, visokošolski študij, univerzitetni študij, študentje, e-učenje, samoučinkovitost

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0093
• Name: Razvoj sistema učinkovite in uspešne javne uprave