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The Role of Adolescents’ and Their Parents’ Temperament Types in Adolescents’ Academic Emotions : A Goodness-of-Fit Approach (2021)


Lahdelma, P., Tolonen, M., Kiuru, N., & Hirvonen, R. (2021). The Role of Adolescents’ and Their Parents’ Temperament Types in Adolescents’ Academic Emotions : A Goodness-of-Fit Approach. Child and Youth Care Forum, 50(3), pages 471-492. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-020-09582-1


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All authors or editorsLahdelma, Pinja; Tolonen, Maria; Kiuru, Noona; Hirvonen, Riikka

Journal or seriesChild and Youth Care Forum

ISSN1053-1890

eISSN1573-3319

Publication year2021

Publication date20/10/2020

Volume50

Issue number3

Pages rangepages 471–492

PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC

Publication countryNetherlands

Publication languageEnglish

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-020-09582-1

Publication open accessOpenly available

Publication channel open accessPartially open access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX)https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/72281


Abstract

Background
Academic emotions (e.g., enjoyment of learning or anxiety) play a significant role in academic performance and educational choices. An important factor explaining academic emotions can be students’ temperament and the goodness-of-fit between their temperament and their social environment, including parents.

Objective
This study investigated the unique and interactive effects of early adolescents’ and their parents’ temperament types on adolescents’ academic emotions in literacy and mathematics.

Method
The participants in the study consisted of 690 adolescent–parent dyads. Parents rated their own and their adolescents’ temperaments, and adolescents reported their positive and negative emotions in literacy and mathematics.

Results
The results showed that adolescents’ temperament type was significantly related to their negative emotions in both school subjects. Adolescents with an undercontrolled temperament reported more anger compared to adolescents with a resilient or overcontrolled temperament, and more anxiety, shame, and hopelessness compared to resilient adolescents. In addition, undercontrolled adolescents reported more boredom in mathematics than resilient or overcontrolled adolescents. The parents’ temperament type was related to positive emotions. Adolescents of resilient parents reported greater pride in mathematics than adolescents of undercontrolled or overcontrolled parents and higher hope in mathematics than adolescents of overcontrolled parents. Finally, overcontrolled adolescents with a resilient or overcontrolled parent reported higher enjoyment of mathematics and literacy in comparison to overcontrolled adolescents with an undercontrolled parent.

Conclusions
The findings of the study provide new knowledge about the role of temperament in the school context by showing that differences in temperamental reactivity and regulation relate to adolescents’ academic emotions.


Keywordsyoung peopleparentstemperamentemotionssocio-emotional skillslearningperformance (capacity)study performanceeducational choicesmathematicsliteracy

Free keywordsacademic emotions; adolescence; goodness-of-fit; parents; temperament


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VIRTA submission year2021

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