The Effect of Emotional Scaffolding on Vocational School Students' Emotions and Self-efficacy in Programming Learning

At a time when vocational education is highly emphasized and programming education is becoming more and more critical, vocational school students face many challenges in programming learning, and emotional factors have a significant impact on their learning effects. The sample consisted of 34 students in the Big Data 1 class 2023 in a vocational school in Shenzhen. In this study, prior knowledge and cognitive style were used as independent variables to investigate the effects of emotional scaffolding on vocational school students' programming learning emotions and self-efficacy. The results of the study showed that: (1) emotional scaffolding could significantly enhance students' momentary enjoyment, but had a limited effect on anxiety and boredom; (2) emotional scaffolding had a non-significant effect on self-efficacy; (3) changes in enjoyment in the classroom had a significant positive effect on self-efficacy, while anxiety and boredom had a non-significant effect on self-efficacy.