Im Psychologischen Forschungskolloquium werden laufende Forschungsarbeiten vorgestellt und diskutiert. Zusätzlich zu Wissenschaftler*innen der Universität Augsburg berichten auch Forscher*innen aus anderen Forschungseinrichtungen über ihre Arbeit.

Research on students’ motivation and emotion suggests they share tremendous conceptual and functional overlap. Consequently, their regulation may involve similar mechanisms as well, but integrative perspectives are lacking to date. This study examined common ground in motivation regulation (MR) and emotion regulation (ER) in academic settings. First, we analyzed overlap in regulatory strategies covered by MR and ER questionnaires. Building on this analysis, we then examined 1,466 university students’ potential use of various MR and ER strategies in a hypothetical study situation. As expected, MR and ER strategies overlap conceptually, and students’ deployment thereof depends more on specific characteristics of the regulation problem at hand (expectancy-/control- vs. value-related problems) than on framing the study problem as motivational vs. emotional. We will discuss implications for developing integrative MR-ER frameworks and possible directions for future research.