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Designing interventions to scaffold emotional awareness, beliefs and action tendencies

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: I demonstrate - via a novel intervention comprising evaluation of emotional contrasting cases and expressive writing - improvements in emotional awareness, beliefs and action tendencies among lower secondary students (N = 71). Relative to their pre-intervention profiles, students were able to better identify and articulate emotions, as well as showcase a more nuanced understanding of both positive and negative emotions and their respective roles in learning. While the intervention successfully reduced avoidance behaviors towards unpleasant emotions and encouraged a more balanced appraisal of emotional experiences, it also highlighted certain limitations - for instance, students showed little change in their acceptance of unpleasant emotions, suggesting further support may be needed to fully utilize emotions as learning tools.

Source: PLoS ONE

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0335896

Author: Tanmay Sinha

Institutions: Nanyang Technological University, National Institute of Education

Language: English

Topic: Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,382