Positive Emotions

Chapter I

The Problem and Its Background

Introduction

Having positive emotions show achievement to joy, hope and pride positively related with students’ academic self-efficacy, academic interest and effort, and overall achievement. But she also said having high positive emotions like excitement may divert from achievement Valiente, Swanson and Eisenberg (2012). Studies found out that emotional intelligence is connected to academic and professional accomplishment and they also emphasized that students with higher emotional intelligence show more positive social relation Chew, Zain and Hassan (2013). In this study, the researchers would like to know the connection of Emotional stability and Academic performance.

Emotions are the most powerful

As mentioned in the study, teachers and parents must be aware of the emotionality of the students. She also mentioned that parents and the educational institution should try to create congenial atmosphere so that the students become emotionally stable. Apart from that, the school premises measures should be taken to identify the emotionally less stable students and to provide them appropriate counselling. Educational institution should develop a positive attitude, emotional stability among secondary level students and inspire them for good academic achievement. In the context of liberalization, privatization and globalization of education, a healthy, productive, creative and innovative education is the need of the hour. The education system relies on the future teachers. Teachers are the persons who could develop and mould the students as a good citizen and make them emotionally matured to hold the responsibility on their shoulders for developing their nation. The younger generation should be emotionally stable and confident to excel in their academic performance and enhance life skills to face the problems in future. Moreover, it is the responsibility of the teachers and the school administrators to create a better learning environment that arouses students’ interest to achieve higher goals and they should ensure transfer of emotional intelligence into academic performance, critical and creative thinking. Pugalenthi & Gunasekar (2015)

This study correlates how emotional stability is associated with academic performance. It will give you information to know when students control their emotional stability in academic performance. Students will know the positive and negative effects of emotional stability in their academic performance and how their emotions cope up with their academic