cc-by-4.0Ville Kivimäki2025-04-292022-01-252022-01-25https://datakatalogi.helsinki.fi/handle/123456789/5070Anonym group level dataset where university students have made emotion, competence and difficulty selections on a set of study related topics and their epistemic beliefs before and after the semester long use of learning diary. Groups are formed based on the overall number of credits the participants studied in their first academic year (master's level). The number of students in each group: ECTS; Number of students 0-19 2 20-39 11 40-59 17 60-79 26 >80 8learningepistemic beliefslearning diaryemotiondifficultycompetenceeducationpsychologyLearning diary emotions, competence self-assessment and difficulty experience connected with epistemic beliefsdataset