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The Relationship Between Positive Education, Learning with Happiness, Motivation in Learning and Academic Performance in Hong Kong

Authors
Fung Chin1, *, Tsz Tung Wong1
1School of Education and Psychology, Gratia Christian College, Hong Kong, China
*Corresponding author. Email: forwardchin@gmail.com
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Fung Chin
Available Online 19 February 2024.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-378-8_9How to use a DOI?
Keywords
positive teaching; positive education; positive learning; Happy learning; academic performance
Abstract

Research has shown a relationship between learning with happiness and motivation in learning, but the relationship between these aspects of learning and academic performance is not clear. This study’s purpose was to understand these associations in sample of first grade students in Hong Kong. The students’ parents completed a questionnaire designed for this study. The overall score for constituted two subscales (learning with happiness, intrinsic motivation in learning) that were moderately correlated. Two groups of first graders (N = 155) were assessed for the first time in either the 2018/19 and in 2020/21 school year and followed to second grade in the 2019/2020 or 2021/2022 school year. However, academic performance between first grade and second grade in the academic year 2018/19 was not significantly different, in the academic year 2020/21 second grade academic performance was better than first grade. The results have implications for understanding longitudinal effects of happiness in in learning, motivation in learning, and internal/external motivation in predicting academic performance. This study is significant because it is the first study in this line of research to examine first graders.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Positive Technology International Conference 2023 Positive Technology: Possible Synergies between Emerging Technologies and Positive Psychology (PT 2023)
Series
Atlantis Highlights in Social Sciences, Education and Humanities
Publication Date
19 February 2024
ISBN
10.2991/978-94-6463-378-8_9
ISSN
2667-128X
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-378-8_9How to use a DOI?
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© 2024 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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