TITLE:
Mediating Effect of Lecture Emotion between Online Academic Lecture Quality and Cognitive Involvement: Focus on Chinese Postgraduate for Master’s Degree
AUTHORS:
Xinya Li
KEYWORDS:
Positive Emotion, Negative Emotion, Online Academic Lecture, Lecture Quality Perception, Cognitive Involvement
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.9,
September
27,
2023
ABSTRACT: Background: Academic lecture is considered to be an important form of training and
improve the academic level of graduate students, to greatly expand the students
to attend academic lectures, based on all variety of network platform online
academic lectures plays an important role. But the study of online academic
lectures is generally stay in the implementation of the planning stage, pay
little attention to the effect of online academic lectures and students’
emotional state, and the exploration of the influence factors is very limited.
Therefore, this study is aimed to explore the relationship of this aspect. Objective: The relationship between online lecture quality, cognitive involvement and
lecture emotion. Methods: The 353 graduate students were tested using
the lecture quality perception questionnaire, cognitive involvement
questionnaire, and lecture emotion questionnaire. Results: 1) The
quality of online lectures was positively correlated with cognitive involvement
and positive emotions; negative but not significant; 2) The quality of online
lectures can not only directly affect the learners’ cognitive involvement, but
also affect the cognitive involvement through the mediating effect of positive
emotions. Conclusion: The perception of lecture quality partly plays a
mediating role in cognitive involvement, while negative emotions have no
significant influence on students’ cognitive involvement. Based on this study,
it is believed that experts should pay attention to students’ emotional state
during the process of online academic lectures, and give appropriate
interaction and human care.