“…The predictive effects of academic emotions on success appear to be mediated by motivation, learning strategies and self-regulation (Pekrun, Goetz, Frenzel, Barchfeld, & Perry, 2011;Davis, Solberg, De Baca, Gore 2014;Mega, Ronconi, & De Beni, 2014;Ruthig, Jones, Vanderzanden, Gamblin, & Kehn, 2017;Putwain, Aveyard, 2018). A research by Mega, Ronconi, and De Beni (2014) analyzed how students' emotions influence their motivation and self-regulated learning and these, in turn, affect academic success; it has focused on the key role of emotions in academic success and also on the key role emotions play in academic contexts.…”