Emotions of achievement and their relationship to academic achievement among middle school students

Abstract

The research aims to identify the emotions of achievement and academic achievement and the relationship between them among Preparatory school students, and to identify statistically significant differences in the emotions of achievement and academic achievement among Preparatory school students according to the gender variable (males - females), specialization (scientific, humanity), the research sample consisted of (250) male and female students from preparatory and secondary schools in the Directorate of Education of Baghdad / second Karkh for the academic year (2024-2025) for the morning study, by (125) male and female students from the scientific specialization and (125) from the specialization humanity, in terms of gender, amounted to (125) males and (125) females, chosen in an equal stratified random way, the researcher adopted the Ahmed scale (2024) to measure the concept of achievement emotions on the research sample.

The scale of achievement emotions consists of (32) items distributed over five dimensions, the Likert five-fold gradient has been adopted. By developing (5) alternatives to answer the scale of achievement emotions, which are (always, often, sometimes, rarely, never), the honesty and stability of the paragraphs of the scale were calculated, as for academic achievement, the researcher used the students' results for the first semester of the year (2024-2025), where students were divided into levels according to their academic estimates through the results of the quarterly tests, the researcher used the statistical means that were calculated by the computer program (SPSS) are: (X2) chi-square, T-test for one sample, T-test for two independent samples, Pearson's correlation coefficient, equation Alpha-Cronbach for internal consistency, simple regression analysis, the most prominent results were as follows: The research sample have high achievement emotions, there are no statistically significant differences in achievement emotions between specialization (scientific –humanity)