Title: Research on the Causes and Effects of Academic Emotions in Online Tutoring for Middle School Students
Author: Chen Ling; Zuo Zhao; Jin Yating
Keywords: online tutoring; Academic emotions; Intention to continue participating; structural equation model
Abstract: Emotions play a crucial role in the field of education. Academic emotions not only affect cognition and academic achievement, but also form beliefs and attitudes, and influence personal behavioral intentions. Starting from an emotional perspective and based on the S-O-R model, this study uses academic self-efficacy and autonomous motivation as internal stimuli, and teacher support and perceived ease of use as external environmental stimuli to deeply explore the causes of students' academic emotions in the context of one-on-one online tutoring, as well as the structural relationship between these emotions and students' willingness to continue participating in tutoring. Based on the structural equation modeling analysis of 672 student questionnaire data, this article found that factors that have a significant positive impact on happiness and relaxation emotions include student autonomy motivation, teacher emotional support, and perceived ease of use of technology; Teacher cognitive support only has a significant impact on relaxing emotions; Factors that have a significant negative impact on anxiety include academic self-efficacy and teacher emotional support; The factors that have a significant negative impact on boredom include autonomous motivation, perceived ease of use of technology, and emotional support from teachers. As for the impact of emotions, happiness, relaxation, and boredom significantly affect students' intention to continue participating in one-on-one online tutoring, while anxiety has no significant effect on their intention to continue participating. To promote students' continuous participation in online tutoring, the academic emotional experience can be optimized from the perspectives of helping students establish goals and confidence, promoting teachers' emotional care and cognitive strategy support, and improving the platform's perception and feedback mechanism.