In the past months (Fall 2017-Summer 2018), a few media have reported about my research. Here are some links* to recent articles, blog posts, and podcasts: 1) Emma Seppälä's and my article on engagement and burnout profiles for the Harvard... Continue Reading →
Positive and negative feelings about school are often experienced together by students. That implies, among other things, that highly engaged students may be at risk to experience high stress and exhaustion. These research findings were recently discussed in my two... Continue Reading →
On two occasions in 2017 I will present my research on mixed emotions in conferences. For example, I will present my network analyses on intra-individual co-occurrences between positive and negative emotions of high school students at the Earli Conference (European... Continue Reading →
My new paper about situational measures of passion and the long-term stability of passionate experiences in adolescence has just been published! This study investigates adolescents' situational passionate experiences, defined as states of strong commitment and intense affect. We examine the... Continue Reading →
A lot of research on positive youth development emphasizes the beneficial role of positive emotions (e.g., Reschly et al., 2008). Positive emotions are linkes to student motivation, well-being, and achievement. These desirable feelings contrast with the mostly negative emotions students... Continue Reading →
Is high student engagement always desirable? Did you ever feel so committed and motivated to a task that you engaged in it to the point of becoming exhausted? Are student engagement and burnout at school mutually exclusive experiences, or can... Continue Reading →
The newest issue of the open access Journal for Person-Oriented Research just got published. It includes my newest article about profiles of harmonious and obsessive passion. In this paper I describe why we probably don't have to worry too much about... Continue Reading →
Many motivational theories are built on the analysis of correlations between variables, factors analyses, structural equation models, and related approaches. These 'variable-oriented' statistical approaches yield many insights, but they do not answer to all research questions. What analyses of inter-individual... Continue Reading →
Many previous studies found girls to be more anxious about science learning than boys, but a recent study by Goetz and colleagues (2013) has questioned this conclusion, showing that previously used assessments might have been biased and that experience sampling... Continue Reading →