The predictive ability of emotional regulation on achievement motivation among upper elementary school students

Abstract

This study aimed to reveal the predictive ability of emotional regulation on achievement motivation, to achieve the objectives of the study, a sample of (350) male and female students from the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades in the village of Arara was selected, and the emotional regulation scale and the achievement motivation scale were applied to them. The results showed that there were no statistically significant differences at (α = 0.05) in the responses of the study sample on the emotional regulation and achievement motivation due to the gender and academic grade. The results also showed that emotional regulation predicted achievement motivation through the dimension of perseverance and explained (3.4%) of the variance in it, and the mastery dimension predicted achievement motivation and explained (1.8%) of the variance.