INTERACTION BETWEEN EMOTIONS AND PUPILS' ACTIVE CLASS PARTICIPATION
INTERACTION BETWEEN EMOTIONS AND PUPILS' ACTIVE CLASS PARTICIPATION

Summary/Abstract: In this research, which was implemented on a sample of 159 primary school pupils, age 9 to 13, the authors propose two hypotheses. The first being that positive emotions increase when pupils are actively involved in class work, and the second that the disposition of teacher's work style is not an important precondition for an active class participation. Regressive analysis established that the key predictors of pupils' active class participation are: a) grade point average (β = .20; significant at the level of .01) and b) pupils' positive emotions (β = .18; significant at the level of .05). It was also found that positive emotions have a liner correlation with the increase of active participation of pupils in class. That, however, is of significance for the happiness emotion, while it is not of significance for the contentment emotion. Negative emotions are not significant predictors of active pupils' participation and did not alter significantly during classes. To prove these correlations, the authors use a multivariate analysis of variance and covariance – MANCOVA. Apart from the stated findings, this research also offers several topics for new researches.

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