Learning emotion (harmonious passion - emotional obsession) and its relationship to the processes of organizing and managing knowledge in distance learning environments

The study aimed to construct indicators to measure emotion in distance learning environments by constructing a binary model of emotion to investigate the relationships between harmonious passion, emotional obsession, self-regulation, and knowledge management in distance learning environments. The sample of the study consisted of (322) male and female students studying for the educational diploma program in the distance education system at the Faculty of Education, Sohag University. The study used emotion in the distance learning scale, self-regulation in the distance learning scale, and knowledge management in the distance learning scale. These scales were prepared by the researcher. The results indicated that the students' practice of learning emotion processes, knowledge management, and organization in distance learning environments was higher than the average and that there were no statistically significant differences between the averages of students' responses to the study's scales due to gender and specialization, and there were statistically significant differences between the averages of students' responses to the scales according to the level of use of computers in favor of the excellent levels, and according to the computer courses acquired in favor of the advanced levels. There is also a significant correlation between the scale of emotion, self-regulation, and knowledge management, and the emotion of learning in its two parts (harmonious passion - and emotional obsession) had a statistically significant effect on the processes of self-regulation and knowledge management. After examining the structural relationships between harmonious passion, emotional obsession, self-regulation, and knowledge management in a distance-learning environment, the results of SEM analysis confirmed the validity of the proposed path model in this study, and that the proposed model is good, and that self-regulation plays an important role in the mediation between emotion and knowledge management. Harmonious passion and obsessive passion make a distinctive contribution to explaining individual differences in knowledge management through the mediating role of self-regulation in distance learning environments.