The Research on the Relationship between College Students' Self-conscious Emotions and Foreign Language Learning Motivation

Yuxiao Xu

doi:10.54097/eh1ts884

Authors

Yuxiao Xu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/eh1ts884

Keywords:

Guilt, Shame, Emotional Intelligence, Learning Motivation

Abstract

Self-conscious emotion serves the social needs of individuals and has positive significance for the development of individual morality and other aspects. In this study, 262 undergraduates from a comprehensive university in China were studied to explore the relationship between guilt and shame and English learning motivation, and to explore the role of emotional intelligence. The results show that: (1) Guilt has a significant positive effect on learning motivation, but plays a significant negative effect on shame. (2) Both guilt and shame are positively predictive of emotional intelligence. (3) Emotional intelligence plays a mediating role between guilt emotion and English learning motivation, but it has a mask effect between shame emotion and English learning motivation. Guilt and shame are closely related to the motivation of foreign language learning. How to guide students to use emotional intelligence to adjust the two emotions to improve the motivation of foreign language learning, promote students to learn independently, and improve the foreign language learning experience is worthy of in-depth attention and exploration of the academic community.

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