Impact of Individual Trait, Achievement Goal and Learning Stress on Learning Strategies: A Study in Educational Computer Game-Based Learning

The purpose of this research was to study how individual trait, playfulness and anxiety, affect learning strategies through the mediate of good-achievement-goal and bad-learning-stress in a computer game-based learning environment. A sample of 141 Year-3 students of university participated in the study. A structural equation model showed that (1) playfulness trait have an indirect positive effect, mediated through good-achievement-goal on deep learning, (2) playfulness trait have an indirect negative effect, mediated through good-achievement-goal on surface learning, (3) anxiety trait have an indirect positive effect, mediated through bad-learning-stress on surface learning.