Frontiers in psychiatry
Which classroom anxiety experience should teachers target first? A network-simulation study of foreign language classroom anxiety and enjoyment
By Yu X and Zhou Q.
Abstract
Background
Foreign language classroom anxiety and enjoyment are moderately negatively related, but this relationship has been examined almost entirely at the total score level, and to our knowledge, no published study has asked which specific anxiety experiences are most closely coupled to enjoyment.
Methods
Using item-level psychological network analysis and the GGMNIRA simulated node-manipulation framework, we estimated the joint network of eight anxiety items and nine enjoyment items in 3,957 Chinese non-English-major college students and simulated the alleviation of each anxiety node in turn.