2 below shows the correlation analysis within the top ten self-regulation strategies
selected by students. A very strong positive correlation can be observed between the
most frequently used emotion-focused regulation strategy “(I pray/supplication - regulation
strategy 1)” and the two problem-focused strategies “(i.e. regulation strategies 2 and 6)”. This
means that those who used the “I pray/supplication” strategy were most likely to also use the
“Try to analyze the problem in order to understand it better” and “Talk to someone who can
do something concrete about the problem” strategies as a means to deal with learning episodes. Similarly, student who deployed the second strategy (i.e. “Trying to analyse the problem
in order to understand it better”) was likely to also use the emotion-focused strategies (i.e.
regulation strategies 1 and 4) and problem-focused strategies (regulation strategies 5 and 7).
In fact, consistent correlation trending was also observed for the regulation strategies deployed
by the students