Jerrim, John;
(2022)
The power of positive emotions? The link between young people’s positive and negative affect and performance in high-stakes examinations.
Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice
10.1080/0969594x.2022.2054941.
(In press).
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Abstract
A substantial body of research suggests that young people’s emotions – both positive and negative – are linked to a wide range of future outcomes. This paper contributes to this literature by investigating the link between young people’s positive and negative emotions and their performance in high-stakes examinations. Using Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data from England linked to the National Pupil Database (NPD), I investigate how 15-year-olds positive affect, negative affect and fear of failure is associated with the grades they achieve in high-stakes examinations. I find that low levels of positive affect – i.e. pupils rarely feeling happy, lively and cheerful – is associated with a 0.10–0.15 standard deviation reduction in young people’s examination grades. On the other hand, little evidence is found of a substantive link between negative affect or fear of failure and examination performance.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The power of positive emotions? The link between young people’s positive and negative affect and performance in high-stakes examinations |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0969594x.2022.2054941 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0969594X.2022.2054941 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Emotions, positive affect, negative affect, fear of failure, high-stakes testing, PISA |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10148386 |
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