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Proceedings of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education · Volume 1

“i Proudly Showed It to My Seatmate“ – Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Authentic and Hubristic Pride

Sarah Falke, Bettina Roesken-Winter, Lars Meyer-Jenßen

University of Münster

49th Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, PME 2026Helsinki27 July 2026 - 1 August 2026pp. 427–434ISSN 2790-36482026Scopus conference code 336559
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Abstract

Emotions play a significant role in professional teacher competence. Pride is one of the most common emotions experienced by primary pre-service teachers (PSTs) during their university mathematics education. However, this emotion has only been marginally investigated. This study examined the pride experiences of 67 primary PSTs, classifying situations that evoke either authentic or hubristic pride. Overall, the participants reported moderately high levels of authentic pride and low levels of hubristic pride; the two facets showed no significant correlation. Situations that evoke authentic pride fall into two categories: evaluative situations and demonstrating content knowledge situations. Hubristic pride situations fall into to the second category only, focusing on social comparison.

Keywords

authentic pridehubristic prideemotionspre-service primary teachers

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Falke, S., Roesken-Winter, B., & Meyer-Jenßen, L. (2026). “i Proudly Showed It to My Seatmate“ – Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Authentic and Hubristic Pride. In Krzywacki H., Hähkiöniemi M., Haataja E., Hannula M.S., Hästö P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Volume 1 (pp. 427–434). Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME). ISSN 2790-3648.
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