This study aimed to confirm the effect of undergraduate students’ digital learning self-efficacy on learning engagements in real-time online classes and to verify the mediating effect of positive and negative academic emotions in the relationship be...
This study aimed to confirm the effect of undergraduate students’ digital learning self-efficacy on learning engagements in real-time online classes and to verify the mediating effect of positive and negative academic emotions in the relationship between digital learning self-efficacy and learning engagement. To achieve this, a research model was created based on previous studies, which was then verified based on 237 undergraduate students, confirming the mediating effect. The findings established that digital learning self-efficacy had a positive effect on engagement in real-time online learning; however, learning engagement was found to be affected in different ways when academic emotions were mediated. In other words, when positive academic emotion was mediated, digital learning self-efficacy directly and indirectly had a significant positive effect on learning engagement; however, when mediated, negative academic emotion was found to have an indirect negative effect on learning engagement. The significance of positive and negative academic emotions in real-time online classes was examined based on these results, and implications for increasing engagement in learning were proposed.