Abstract
In view of the teachers’ professional characteristics, teachers are rated as high emotional workers. By reviewing the literatures of Chinese and foreign teachers’ emotional labor research, this paper sums up four aspects about teachers’ emotional labor: the definition of the concept of emotional labor, teacher’s emotional display rules, teachers’ emotional labor strategies and the antecedents and the consequences of teachers’ emotional labor and also discusses the shortage of contemporary studies about teachers’ emotional labor tentatively.
Highlights
As we know, teacher is a bridge between knowledge and students, and a keeper of caring students’ heart
Nejat Basim et al (2013) chose elementary and middle school teachers as research objects and found that big five personality traits can predict emotional labor strategy, surface acting was significantly predicted by neuroticism, deep acting was significantly predicted by openness to experience, openness to experience and agreeableness significantly predicted expression of naturally felt emotions (Basim & Begenirbaş, 2013)
Organizational Commitment Xinghua Ji (2009) chose junior and senior middle school teachers as the research object,explored the relationship between teachers’ emotional labor and organizational commitment, the results showed that there was a positive correlation between deep acting and organizational commitment, surface acting are not related to organizationa commitment, expression of naturally felt emotions and ideal commitment were positive correlation, expression of naturally felt emotions are not relate to affective commitment and normative commitmen
Summary
Teacher is a bridge between knowledge and students, and a keeper of caring students’ heart. It is very important to strengthen the research on teachers’ emotional labor. By reviewing the literatures of Chinese and foreign teachers’ emotional labor research, this paper sums up four aspects about teachers’ emotional labor: the definition of the concept of emotional labor, teacher’s emotional display rules, teachers’ emotional labor strategies and the antecedents and the consequences of teachers’ emotional labor. It gives some suggestions about the study of teacher’s emotional labor in future. A Literature Review on Teachers’ Emotional Labor.
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