The mediating role of academic emotions in the relationship between constructivist learning environment and academic competence in the female second secondary school students

The purpose of this research was to determine the mediating role of academic emotions in the relationship between constructive learning environment and academic competence in the female students. The method of this research was descriptive- correlational and population included the female high school students in Second course in Tehran in the academic year 2015-2016. 450 participants were randomly selected via cluster sampling method and completed Constructivist Learning Environment (Taylor, Dawson, & Fraser, 1995), Academic Competence (DiPerna & Elliott, 1999) and Achievement Emotions Questionnaire (Pekrun, Goetz, Titz, & Perry, 2002). Research data was analyzed using structural equation modeling. Fit indices represented fitness of model with collected data. On the whole, the positive and negative academic emotion and constructive learning environment were able to explain 54% of the variance of academic competence. Also the results showed that the direct effect of constructive learning environment on academic competence is positive and significant (p<0.01). The direct effect of negative academic emotion on academic competence is negative and the direct effect of positive academic emotion on academic competence is positive and significant (p<0.01). The indirect effect of constructive learning environment on academic competence with the mediation role of both negative and positive of academic emotion is significant (p<0.01).