The Relationship Of Junior High School Students’ Psychological Capital, Academic Emotion And Learning Engagement

The psychological capital of junior middle school students from the perspective of positive psychology defines the positive mental ability and mentality of the students.Academic emotion of junior middle school students refers to the junior middle school students’ emotional state in the learning activities. Then learning engagement shows how much the students to engagement for study. The junior middle school stage is the foundation in life, which is also the key period of the students’ growth. During this period, the body and mind of students develop rapidly with many problems, which enlightens us to pay more attention to the mental health of junior high school students. This research aimed at 700 students of five junior high school in Shijiazhuang and based on <The questionnaire of adolescent psychological capital> < The questionnaire of academic emotions >and <The scale of learning engagement>. This research aimed at stating the relationship between the psychological capital, emotion and learning engagement of junior high school students to provid a new method of improving the level of student learning. The conclusions of this research are as follows:First, psychological capital of junior middle school students is at a good level. Their academic emotion is given priority to with positive emotions and learning engagement is also at a higher level.Second, the study found that the psychological capital of junior middle school students is not significant in terms of gender, but girls have more confidence than boys. The stdutents of the first grade are at the highest level of psychological capital, the second grade at the higher level, and the third grade at the minimum level.The class leaders are significantly higher than the others on the factor of hope, optimism and confidence.Third, the academic emotion of junior middle school students has no significant difference in gender, boys on the factor of upset are significantly higher than girls. There is significant difference among the grades. The first grade shows significantly higher score of positive emotion than the other tow grades, and the third grade gets highest score of negative emotion.The only child gets the score of upset factor significantly lower than non-only child. The positive mood low arousal level of the students from city is significantly higher than the students from rural area. The students from city have higher score of happy factor and anxious factor than students from rural area, while the score of hope factor and depression factor of the students from city is significantly lower than that of rural students. The class leaders getthe significantly higher score on the happy and calm factor than the others, and the class leaders have significantly lower score on the boredom and helplessness factor than the other students.Fourth, there is significant difference among grades of junior high school. The first grade is on the highest level of learning engagement, the second on the higher level, and the third on the minimum level. The learning engagement of the class leaders is significantly higher than the other students.Fifth, the psychological capital and positive academic emotion of junior middle school students are significantly positively related, but show significant negative correlation with negative academic emotion. The psychological capital and learning engagement of Junior middle school students show significantly positive correlation. Positive academic emotion and learning engagement of Junior middle school students show significantly positive correlation,and the other way around. Psychological capital has forecast on academic emotion and learning engagement.Sixth, academic emotion plays a medium role between psychological capital and learning engagement.