Article Dans Une Revue European Review of Applied Psychology / Revue Européenne de Psychologie Appliquée Année : 2018

Is it better to be happy or to be proud at school before doing a text comprehension task ? First evidence with 10-year-old children

Résumé

Introduction and objective : An experiment was conducted in a school context to examine whether joy and pride, two positive emotions, can promote children's acquisition of knowledge in a reading comprehension situation.Method : The experiment consisted of inducing either a positive emotion (i.e., joy, pride) or a neutral state to 10-year-old children using an autobiographical recall task. Once the induced state was evaluated, children were submitted to a reading/comprehension task of a neutral text. When they finished reading this text, a questionnaire was used to assess not only their memory of the information provided in the text, but also their ability to make inferences.Results : Our main results highlighted a positive effect of joy on children's inference making.Conclusion : This study confirmed the relevance of taking into account the emotional state of children engaged in knowledge acquisition situations at school.

Fichier non déposé

Dates et versions

hal-03063496 , version 1 (14-12-2020)

Identifiants

Citer

Nathalie Blanc, Arielle Syssau Vaccarella. Is it better to be happy or to be proud at school before doing a text comprehension task ? First evidence with 10-year-old children. European Review of Applied Psychology / Revue Européenne de Psychologie Appliquée, 2018, 68 (4-5), pp.181-188. ⟨10.1016/j.erap.2018.09.001⟩. ⟨hal-03063496⟩
117 Consultations
0 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

  • More