EMOTION REGULATION AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS

• Main Authors: María Laura Andrés, Florencia Stelzer, Lorena Canet Juric, Isabel Introzzi, Raquel Rodríguez-Carvajal, José Ignacio Navarro Guzmán
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Maringá 2017-09-01
• Series: Psicologia em Estudo
• Subjects: Emoción; aprendizaje escolar; revisión de literatura.
• Online Access: http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/PsicolEstud/article/view/34360

It has been proposed that emotion regulation (ER) is a factor with a predictive capacity for academic performance. However, empirical studies are scarce and relatively little is still known about the specific relationship of RE strategies and abilities with different indicators of academic performance. The aim of this study was to identify the state of the art regarding the relationship of emotional regulation with academic performance. A systematic search of empirical articles was conducted in the databases Google Scholar, ERIC and PsyArticles combining the terms emotion regulation or emotion self-regulation with: (academic) abilities, competency, achievement, success, performance, learning, school, literacy, classroom, education, reading, math. There were selected 17 items. The analysis allowed two groups to be formed. In the first group, articles evaluating ER strategies were considered. Among these studies, experimental designs and behavioral indicators predominated as ER measures. In the second group, studies evaluating ER skills were considered. In this group, studies with cross-sectional designs and measures of self-report or other reports to evaluate ER were predominant. It concludes with recommendations for future work.