The role of achievement emotions in primary school mathematics: Control–value antecedents and achievement outcomes

Background Appraisals of control and value are proposed as proximal antecedents of achievement emotions, which, in turn, predict achievement. Relatively few studies have investigated how control and value may interact to determine achievement emotions, or subsequent achievement mediated by emotions. Aim To examine whether control, value, and their interaction predicted mathematics test score directly, and indirectly, mediated by three salient...