The definition of achievement emotions poses that psychophysiological processes constitute one component of the emotional experience in situations of learning and assessment. Therefore, research increasingly employs physiological measures in addition so self-report in the assessment of achievement emotions (Pekrun et al., 2023). Despite this increasing use, however, we are still lacking an in-depth understanding of how physiological measures relate to the individual’s subjective experience of achievement emotions and how such information can be used to supplement self-report in research and practice.

The present research therefore explores the relation between psychophysiological measures (electrodermal activity and heart rate) and subjectively experienced, self-reported achievement emotions on both an inter- and an intraindividual level using a psychometric network approach (e.g. Epskamp, 2020). In a laboratory study, we obtained repeated physiological and self-report measures from N = 159 participants during an achievement task. The results underline the importance of a distinction between inter- and intraindividual relations and provide food for thought on how physiological processes constitute a “component” of achievement emotions and their application in research and practice.

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