Enjoyment of learning and its personal antecedents: Testing the change–change assumption of the control-value theory of achievement emotions

The contribution focuses on the personal antecedents of the enjoyment of learning in mathematics. Using latent-change models, it tests the assumption of the control-value theory of achievement emotions (Pekrun, 2000, Pekrun, 2006) that positive changes in perceived control and perceived value lead to positive changes in the enjoyment of learning. Data are analysed of 431 students (three measurement time points in the sixth school year). The...