Perceived academic stress, emotion regulation, academic buoyancy, and psychological well-being: a control-value theory-informed analysis

Using Control-Value Theory (CVT) as an interpretive framework, this study examined the statistical associations of perceived academic stress, emotion regulation, and academic buoyancy with psychological well-being among Saudi EFL learners. Rather than testing the appraisal-emotion structure of CVT, the study estimated the relationships among these learner constructs within a single partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) model and used CVT to inform their theoretical interpretation. Data were collected from 250 intermediate-level EFL learners enrolled in institutionally…
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