Few studies have investigated whether harmonious passion (HP) and obsessivepassion (OP) make a distinctive contribution to explaining individual differences inknowledge management through self-regulation in e-learning contexts. This study aimed toidentify four types of passion (internal HP, external HP, internal OP, and external OP) ine-learning and, further, to examine the relationships between different types of passion,self-regulation, and knowledge management in e-learning. The participants were 1209college students. Three 4-point Likert scales were employed to measure the concernedvariables and structural equation modeling was employed to examine the proposed model.The findings revealed that the four types of passion were interrelated and that the proposedmodel was a good-fit model. Specifically, self-regulation mediated the influence of passionon knowledge management in e-learning. However, HP and OP predicted self-regulationand knowledge management in the opposite way, and HP played a more crucial role thanOP in e-learning. The result in this study not only support the two-dimensional model ofpassion but also suggest that the four types of passion, though positively correlated,interact in ways that have different effects on college students’ self-regulation andknowledge management in e-learning.

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• The mediating role of self-regulation on harmoniouspassion, obsessive passion, and knowledge managementin e-learning