Objective: To understand the potential predictors of the graduated students’
academic emotion and motivation, and certain the mediating role of academic negative
emotion between supervision’s guidance style and graduated students’ academic
motivation. Methods: 422 graduated students were surveyed by Supervisor Guidance
Style Questionnaire, Abusive Supervision Questionnaire, Learning Motivation
Questionnaire, Academic Emotion Questionnaire. Results: ① The controlling guide style
only predicted the graduate students’ surface learning motivation, while the supportive
style stimulates the deep learning motivation, inhibits the surface motivation. ② The
supportive style negatively related with academic negative emotion; abusive style
induced graduated students’ negative emotion. ③ Supportive style stimulate students’
deep learning motivation through decreasing their negative academic emotion;
controlling and abusive style may stimulate surface learning motivation through
inducing negative academic emotion. Conclusion: The supportive style is the best
guide style. The negative academic emotion plays a mediating role in the relationship
between guidance styles and academic motivation.