The Study and Development of the Scales of Achievement Emotions and Test Emotions for Senior High School Students

• Main Authors: Shin-huei Lin, 林欣慧
• Other Authors: SU-WEI LIN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12505614713522505229

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 教育學系測驗統計碩士班 === 100 === This article describes the development and the construct validity of the Scale ofAchievement Emotions (SAE) and Scale of Test Emotions (STE). The SAE is a self-report questionnaire assessing eight emotions in the context of school learning in class and studying out side of class: enjoyment, hope, pride, anger, anxiety, shame,helpless and boredom. The STE is included the same eight emotions either, but in the context of taking tests and exams. Both of theirs construct validity study through exploratoryand confirmatory factor analyses. The exploratory factor analysisshows that eight factors correspond to eight achievement emotions. In addition, theConfirmatory factor analysis conductsto test the factorial structure of the final version of the scales by comparing the goodness-of-fit statistics for the three following models. These models represented respectively the dimensional, categorical, and hierarchical approaches of the organization of emotions.The result shows that a hierarchical model with a second-order factor underlying the eight first-order emotional factors was mush suited to the data, and the categorical organization of emotions is still the best. Previous research indicates that academic emotions are largely organized along domain-specific lines. In the present study, the authorwants to explore the domain specificity of academic emotions as experienced in the academic domains of Chinese, English and mathematics.Confirmatory multitrait–multimethod factor analysis of the 2-faceted dataset (emotions and domains) corroborated assumptions of domain specificity. Furthermore, using multilevel analysis, the author found that emotions with hope and anxiety being the most domain-specific of the eight emotions under investigation.