Student adaptability, emotions, and achievement: Navigating new academic terrains in a global crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic forced students to abruptly shift from traditional and familiar, to largely improvised distance learning formats. This study examined whether individual differences in students' capacity to adjust to situational uncertainty and novelty (i.e., adaptability) explained differences in their achievement-related emotions and learning outcomes in the digital learning context. We assessed 89 university students' trait-level...