The effectiveness of training focused on the regulation of pekrun emotion on the emotions of achievement and self-regulated academic of students

Numerous studies have shown that emotion regulation has been affective on various variables such as resilience, emotional problems and high-risk behaviours. But there is no research that examines training focused on the regulation of Pekrun emotion on the emotions of achievement, Self-Regulated academic.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of training focused on the regulation of Pekrun emotion on the achievement emotions and academic self-regulation of students.

The research method was quasi-experimental and pre-test-post-test with a control group. The statistical population included all female high school students in Tehran in the 2019-2020 academic year who were selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling of 30 people from Beit-ol Zahra’s high school and randomly, 15 people were in the experimental group and 15 people in the control group. Then, a training program focused on the regulation of Pekrun emotion (Sattari, Pourshahriari and shokr, 2016) was implemented in 6 sessions of 90 minutes for the experimental group. Data were collected through two questionnaires: Pekrun achievement Emotions (2005) and Pintrich & Digrott (1990) Academic Self-Regulation Strategies.To test the hypotheses, multivariate and univariate analysis of covariance was done by using SPSS-25 software.

The results showed that there were significant differences between the pre-test and post-test scores of the experimental group and also significant differences between the experimental and control groups in regulating the emotions of achievement and academic self-regulation. (p˂0.05). The effect of education focused on the regulation of Pekrun emotion on students’ emotions of achievement was 0.22 and on students' academic self-regulation was 0.27.

The results showed that students who participated in educational sessions got higher scores in comparison with the control group and pre-training in components of cognitive strategies, metacognitive strategies, resource management, motivational strategies and the emotions of achievement. Overall, they experienced the emotions of achievement and better Self-regulated academic.