The Relationship between Academic Emotions and Emotional Creativity of Male and Female Sixth Grade Students in Public and Private Elementary Schools

The present applied correlational study was conducted to assess the relationship between academic emotions and emotional creativity in the sixth grade elementary school students in the city of Golbahar. A total of 286 sixth graders were selected according to Krejcie and Morgan Table by random cluster sampling method. Data were collected using Pekrun’s Academic Emotions (2005) and Averill and Thomas Knowles (1991) Emotional Creativity Questionnaires. The study hypotheses were assessed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and independent t-test. The results showed a significant relationship between students’ academic emotions and their emotional creativity. Students’ academic emotions were significantly different according to gender and also school type (public vs private). Their emotional creativity was not significantly different for school type, but it was for gender.