Mood Congruency Effect on Academic Content Retention for Emotionally Disturbed High School Students

<p>The effect of mood on the encoding and recall of memories is crucial to create more affective classroom environments conducive to retention of academic content. The current study hypothesized that emotionally disturbed (ED) students encode less academic content then their peers due to their pervasive negative mood. In three separate conditions, 73 participants were shown a 5 min video clip to either induce a positive or negative mood or to neutralize mood. Subjects were asked to rate their mood before and after the film clip. Finally, participants were instructed to recall as many words as they could from a presented word list containing emotionally positive, negative and neutral words. A paired samples t-test demonstrated statistically significant results for mood-induction in a positive, negative, and neutral condition (p = 0.001, p = 0.004, p = 0.003, respectively), which did concur with the hypothesis. However, no statistical significance demonstrated correlation between mood and memory.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Year dc:date.available

2013

Author dc:creator

• Corkrey, Lara M.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Madalienne F. Peters, EdD

• Retention
• Academic Achievement
• emotionally disturbed students
• Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.dominican.edu/masters-theses/86

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.dominican.edu:masters-theses-1084