Investigations of the Relationship Between Emotion and Students Motivation in Chinese High School

Abstract

There have been many studies examining the relationship between emotion and motivation, but many questions about the relationship between anxiety and motivation in high school students remain unanswered. This paper will discuss the close connection between anxiety and high school students motivation. First, this paper will introduce what is anxiety and the production process of anxiety from a psychological view. Second, divide anxiety into several levels to explain the influence of anxiety on students' learning motivation, such as mild anxiety, severe anxiety, and excessive anxiety. Third, we will discuss motivation, learning motivation, the classify of motivation, and the connection between motivation and learning. Last but not the least, when anxiety inevitably appears, how should students control anxiety and even how use anxiety to make themselves more motivated to study, this is also the main goal of this discussion.