Emotional Education Research Articles

The association between school climate, teacher emotions, and adaptive instruction

IntroductionAlthough adaptive instruction has become increasingly important as a component of effective instruction, the mechanism of adaptive instruction remains underexplored. This study examined the potential associations between school climate and teacher emotions on adaptive instruction.MethodsThis study used cross-sectional approach with a sample included 2,880 primary school teachers from Chongqing, China.ResultsThe results indicated that of the five dimensions of school climate examined, teacher collaboration, student relations, and instructional innovation had positive and significant associations with adaptive instruction. Regarding teachers’ emotions, enjoyment was positively while anxiety was negatively associated with teachers’ adaptive instruction.DiscussionAs teachers’ positive emotions play important roles in adaptive instruction, policymakers and educators should focus on fostering teachers’ experiences of positive emotions. The finding of an adverse role of a teacher’s negative emotion in shaping adaptive instruction may be used in intervention programs and pieces of training for both pre-service and in-service teachers.

EMOTIONAL EDUCATION AND ITS IMPLICATION IN ADOLESCENCE

This article has as its title “Emotional Education and its implication in adolescence”, and aimed to present and discuss the main concepts and particularities regarding emotional education and its implication in adolescence. The study provides a reflection on the adolescent's education and emotional balance, where this is an indispensable element for a more significant coexistence. To this end, the theme cited from the bibliographic research regarding the subject exposed seeks through the authors, to understand that emotional education has been developed in the most varied situations of social daily life and the current socio-political conjuncture and the need for its reach in Life of the teenager.

Can high-involvement management enhance teacher professionalism in China? A structural equation modeling analysis

As a multifaceted concept, teacher professionalism lays particular emphasis on strong moral purposes and commitment to the teaching profession in the Chinese cultural context, compared with teacher agency, but it is not yet known whether it can be enhanced by high-involvement management in Chinese schools. By conducting a questionnaire survey of primary and secondary school teachers, this study used structural equation modeling to unpack the relationship between high-involvement management and teacher professionalism. The results showed that high-involvement management had a significant positive effect on career commitment and positive emotions of teachers, which both exerted the positive effects on professionalism. Career commitment and positive emotions play the single mediation and sequential mediation between high-involvement management and teacher professionalism. The high-involvement management model cannot directly facilitate professionalism, but only have an indirect positive impact through the full mediation of career commitment and positive emotions.

Turkish teachers' values with rational and non-rational truth and teacher emotions in teaching.

The aim of this study was to clarify the relationships between personal values, truth-related values and emotions among Turkish teachers. The Schwartz's Value Theory and Frenzel's teacher emotion model were used as the theoretical framework. This study used a cross-sectional correlational research design. The data were collected from 279 teachers with the Portrait Value Questionnaire (PVQ) where rational truth and non-rational truth values were added, and with the Teacher Emotions Scale (TES). The circular structure of the Schwartz Value Theory was tested by multidimensional scaling. The data analysis aimed to uncover relationships between personal values, truth-related values, and emotions. Rational truth emerged near self-direction and self-transcendence, yet items measuring non-rational truth were scattered among values. Females had higher regard for self-direction and hedonism than males. Non-rational truth was negatively correlated with enjoyment, while it was positively correlated with anxiety. The implications for gender roles in Turkish society are discussed.

Estudio del Efecto de una Intervención en Competencias Emocionales en Educación Secundaria

Introduction. Adolescence is a crucial stage for emotional and social development. Therefore, fostering emotional competencies is key to improving well-being, social adaptation, and equipping with tools to face the characteristic challenges of this period. This study evaluates the effectiveness of an emotional competencies development program in adolescents. Method. The sample of this study consists of 175 secondary education students with an average age of 13.53 years (SD = 0.523), distributed as 48% males, 51.4% females, and 0.6% un-specified. For this purpose, a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design with a control group is used. The program consists of 25 activities, implemented during an academic year in tutoring hours to develop emotional competencies. The statistical tests applied are the Mann-Whitney U test for independent samples and for paired samples. The instruments used to measure the study variables are the Emotional Development Questionnaire for Secondary Education (CDE-SEC), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (ERQ-CA), the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), and the School Violence Questionnaire (CUVE3-EP). Academic performance was provided by the teachers. Results. The findings show a significant improvement in the emotional competencies of awareness and regulation, as well as an increase in resilience and academic performance. Similarly, a significant decrease was observed in the emotional suppression strategy, anxiety, and various components of school violence in the intervention group. These results support the importance of emotional education during adolescence and the trend to improve constructs that require more time. Discussion or Conclusion. Working on emotional competencies in the classroom emerges as an effective tool for this purpose, highlighting the need for future research addressing the longterm effects of these interventions.

Co-Authorship Networks and Impact on Emotional Education Research

Co-Authorship Networks and Impact on Emotional Education Research

An Integrated Approach to Social and Emotional Teaching (SET): A Qualitative Study of the Beliefs and Practices of Preschool Teachers in the United States

AbstractGiven that social and emotional learning (SEL) is critical for children’s current development and future success, effective teaching can enhance this process. This qualitative study investigated which competencies were prioritized most frequently in social and emotional teaching (SET), why, and how. Data collection included: (1) observations of three preschool teachers’ SET in their interactions with children over six days during typically occurring indoor and outdoor activities at a Reggio-inspired childcare center in the United States; and (2) individual interviews with these teachers. The research team coded 75 critical instances of SET for evidence of CASEL’s five social and emotional competencies (Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision-Making). Additionally, these instances were analyzed according to (Ng and Bull, International Journal of Early Childhood 50:335–352, 2018) four teaching strategies (setting a positive tone, suggestion of solutions, task allocation, and extension). The findings reveal that the teachers: (1) intentionally modeled and taught Relationship Skills most frequently; (2) demonstrated the congruence between beliefs about SEL and practices of SET, especially in relationship skills as promoted in a Reggio-inspired context, and (3) applied an integrated approach to SET by setting a positive tone in all activities, with the most frequent instances occurring during circle time, followed by center/play time, and then mealtime.

A drama-based intervention to improve emotional intelligence in early childhood education

Emotional intelligence and drama-based intervention open up an innovative field in education. The current study describes the effectiveness of an innovative project based on the development of emotional intelligence through dramatization in Early Childhood Education. A total of 82 children range from 4 to 5 years old were divided into two groups: group A (N = 40) and group B (N = 42). The study was designed as a pre-post-follow-up experimental study and all children participated at different times. The evaluation of behavior and expression of emotions is carried out using three instruments, i.e., Preschool and Kindergarten Behavior Scales-Second Edition (PKBS-2), and two multimedia tests, i.e., Facially Expressed Emotion Labeling (FEEL test) and e-Motion 1.0. The results showed that the program met its objective and the children improved their inter- and intra-subject relationship problems, especially when it comes to reducing negative behaviors related to social skills. The program’s design and effectiveness make it suitable for improving emotional education in children aged 3 to 6.

Understanding Language Teachers’ Positional Identities in a Professional Promotion Appraisal Context

This study examines how forty-eight Polish in-service language teachers position them- selves through their discourse during professional promotion examinations for teachers. The data were collected via field notes concerning the participants’ narratives and their responses to the questions asked by the members of the examination commissions. Of particular interest were the teachers’ three self-positions: the unique self, the ideal self, and the fearful self. The analysis of the datarevealed that, apart from the emergence of the references to the three positional identities, each of these self-positions could be further subdivided into other self-position constructions which shed light on what language teachers believe would be appreciated by the examiners under the circumstances. The significance of the study lies in its focus on in-service language teachers’ discourses obtained in a particular professional situation— teacher promotion examinations— to which access is rather rare. The findings shed further light on the connection between teacher identity, teacher emotions, and teacher agency and offer implications for in-service language teachers, teacher ex- aminers, and teacher educators.

La formación en habilidades socioemocionales como un potenciador de la satisfacción con la vida en universitarios

The present work evaluates the impact of a training strategy based on Emotional Education, on the level of satisfaction with life of university students, an aspect strongly related to personal factors that can influence teaching and learning processes. This was carried out through a study with an empirical-analytical approach, quantitative type, quasi-experimental methodology with pretest-posttest measurements in a final sample of 151 students from undergraduate programs at a university in the department of Boyacá, Colombia. The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), a sociodemographic sheet and a session evaluation questionnaire were used. The results show a significant improvement in the level of satisfaction with life in three of the elements analyzed with the instrument, particularly a tendency was found for men to present higher scores. The importance of including socio-emotional skills in professional training processes is recognized, considering that they are a contribution to the construction of society and the well-being of the university population.

유아 사회정서지원 과정에서 유아교사가 경험하는 보람과 어려움

Objectives This study attempted to draw implications by exploring the rewards and difficulties experienced by early childhood teachers in supporting young children’s social emotional development. Methods Data were collected by conducting two in-depth interviews with 17 teachers of 3 to 5-year-olds at early childhood education institutions located in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Incheon and analyzed using qualitative research methods. The research findings derived through data analysis underwent internal validation by the study participants, discussions among researchers, and consultations with two early childhood education experts. Results The results show that, in supporting young children social emotional development, the teachers feel rewarding when the children control their emotions and build social relationships by themselves, appropriately express emotions and use social skills for situations, and also when there are progress and practices at home. In addition, the teachers experience difficulties in supporting children’s social emotional development due to developmental differences among the children, challenges in using interaction methods to support social emotional development, lack of time and manpower, and parents’ insufficient understanding and cooperation with supporting methods. Conclusions Through this study, it is found that the early childhood teachers experience rewards and difficulties in supporting young children’s social emotional development in various aspects. It is necessary to develop and provide professional developmental training and programs that can improve social emotional teaching capabilities of early childhood teachers. More practical support needs to be provided to early childhood teachers by seeking case-by-case support plans related to young children's social emotional development. Also, it is necessary to develop criteria and indicators to understand young children’s social and emotional developmental levels, so that appropriate supports for each child’s developmental level can be provided. In addition, it is essential to prepare plans for both of families and institutions to support young children's social emotional development together through family-linked programs.

The Relative Importance of Growth Teaching Mindset, Emotions, and Self‐Efficacy in Teachers’ Grit

AbstractConsidering the demanding and challenging nature of the teaching profession in general and foreign/second language (L2) teaching contexts in particular, there is a need to examine protective psychological resources such as grit—conceptualized as the inclination to show consistent interest and perseverance in times of setbacks and failures—among L2 teachers. Given the recently emerging status of the L2 research on grit and the multitude of factors that might potentially affect teachers’ grit, this study examined the roles of growth teaching mindset, positive and negative emotions (enjoyment, anxiety, and anger), and self‐efficacy in L2 teachers’ grit. The participants were 215 Iranian teachers who were recruited via convenience sampling and responded to four questionnaires: Sudina et al.’s L2 Teacher Grit Scale, Frenzel et al.’s Teacher Emotions Scale, Nalipay et al.’s Growth Teaching Mindset Scale, and the short version of Tschannen‐Moran and Hoy's Teacher Self‐Efficacy Scale. The results indicated that all three factors significantly contributed to the teachers’ grit. Moreover, based on the results of relative weight analysis (RWA), the relative weights of enjoyment, followed by self‐efficacy and growth teaching mindset, were significantly higher in predicting teachers’ grit while anxiety and anger had the lowest relative weight. Implications for promoting teachers’ enjoyment, self‐efficacy, and growth teaching mindset as well as suggestions for future studies are presented.

Educational Strategies For Healthy Habits in Secondary School: Promoting Integral Health

Objectives: This article aims to integrate positive habits in secondary education, focusing on students' mental and physical health. It aims to promote self-care practices and emotional resilience. Theoretical Framework: It is based on theories of emotional education, active learning, and public health, highlighting the importance of training in healthy behaviors for students' physical, emotional, and social well-being. Method: A mixed method was used, using interactive activities, awareness-raising workshops, and digital technologies. Periodic evaluations were carried out to measure the impact of the interventions and encourage the active participation of teachers and students. Results and Discussion: Implementing the educational strategies improved physical activity intervention and reduced risk behaviors, such as substance use. Research Implications: The findings suggest that promoting positive behaviors in secondary education increases academic achievement and contributes to students' overall development. They highlight the need for educational policies that support these initiatives and encourage collaboration between school, family, and community. Originality/Value: It offers an innovative educational proposal that prioritizes students' personal growth and creates an environment conducive to learning. It fosters active collaboration between students and teachers and develops socio-emotional skills that strengthen the sense of community and belonging.

Navigating the Shadows: Exploring the Impact of Self-Centered Leadership on Teacher Emotional Exhaustion

ABSTRACT Researchers studying educational leadership theory tend to examine positive leadership behaviors and their outcomes far more frequently than their opposite. Such a lopsided approach, while admirable in its intent, has undermined efforts to identify and excise the continuation of poor leadership attributes currently extant. This study aims to address the latter issue by investigating how, and under what conditions, a school principal’s self-centered leadership style contributes to the proliferation of teacher emotional exhaustion amongst school faculty. Data collected from 855 teachers in 72 Kuwaiti public schools were analyzed via regression analysis and bootstrapping tests to evaluate a moderated mediation model of self-centered leadership effects on teacher emotional exhaustion; teacher diffident silence acted as the mediator, while teacher ambivalent identification served as the moderator. The results showed that diffident silence partially mediates the relationship between self-centered leadership and teacher emotional exhaustion. Additionally, ambivalent identification mitigates the positive relationship between self-centered leadership and diffident silence as well as the indirect effects of self-centered leadership on teacher emotional exhaustion via diffident silence. Our discussion highlights the benefits of understanding the roles of diffident silence and ambivalent identification in the relationship between self-centered leadership and teacher emotional exhaustion, and offers recommendations for improving school leadership practices.

Love is Glorious: The Analysis of Emotional Education Culture of Film “To Our Youth That Is Fading Away”

About the educational films, most of the existing studies in academia and culture are based on the construction of theoretical perspectives, or the discussion of the narrative content and the transformation of themes of a certain genre, but there is a lack of important educational issues based on the analysis of film texts. As a popular narrative genre of educational films in China since the beginning of this century, “youth narrative” has a wide range of communication audiences, but for the audience, there is a need for more in-depth discussion of its educational meaning. Therefore, it is necessary to select typical case of “youth film” in China, describe the emotional education in detail, and try to put forward the theoretical category of “emotional education culture”, to show that for teenagers, the complex, mutual, reverberative and dislocated relationship of emotional space poses a great challenge to education.

Teachers’ Emotional Labor: A Systematic Review

Emotional labor refers to the process by which employees are required to regulate their emotions in accordance with professionally specified requirements, rules, and guidelines. In the context of teaching, a significant portion of work is dedicated to the emotional labor of the teachers. Teaching, as a multifaceted profession, encompasses cognitive as well as emotional dimensions. Teachers consistently engage in emotional labor as an essential component of achieving pedagogical objectives and fostering positive learning outcomes. This review aimed to examine the emotional labor of elementary and high school teachers. The study was guided by four key questions: (1) What are the emotional labor levels of the teachers? (2) How do teachers engage in emotional labor in terms of surface acting and deep acting? (3) What is the relationship between naturally felt emotions and surface acting and deep acting? (4) What are the remaining gaps in the literature regarding the study of emotional labor, surface acting, and deep acting among teachers in elementary and high schools? We systematically selected ten articles relevant to our objective to confirm the components related to teachers’ emotional labor, with a specific focus on surface acting, deep acting, and naturally felt emotions in elementary and high school teachers. A comprehensive database search was conducted, in adherence to the PRISMA statement, to locate relevant studies investigating “teachers’ emotional labor” and synthesizing surface acting and deep acting. The PICOS approach was used to refine research inquiries and formulate search terms. Overall, the literature review highlights notable associations between surface acting and deep acting. However, there is no conclusive evidence that shows the correlation between deep acting and naturally felt emotions. There is considerable room for improving our understanding of emotional labor, including study methodologies, explored variables, and the recognition of historical and cultural influences that moderate and mediate the dynamics of emotional labor. This systematic review sought to delineate and consolidate existing research insights on teachers’ emotional labor.

Football coach's strategy in preventing aggressive behavior in adolescents

This study aims to review the types of strategies that football coaches employ to prevent aggressive behavior in adolescents. Using the systematic literature review, data were obtained from articles searched through Google Scholar. The search focused on those published in Scopus-indexed journals published between 2019 and 2024. The keywords involved "Strategy And Soccer Coaches And Prevention And Aggressive Behavior And Teenagers". The search generated 15,400 articles as initial results. To be included in the review, inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied. The articles were screened again using these criteria, and 19 articles that fit the theme and met the inclusion requirements were yielded. The process of the article selection in this study followed the PRISMA guidelines. The main findings of this study emphasized several factors that play a key role in creating a supportive environment for young athletes. The first factor was emotional education. Teaching athletes to recognize and manage their emotions helped football coaches reduce athletes’ aggressive reactions, especially during the pressure of competition. In addition, open and consistent communication between soccer coaches and athletes was reported to reinforce positive interpersonal relationships, which in turn lowered levels of aggressiveness on the field. Finally, building a team culture that emphasizes the values of cooperation and mutual respect has also been proven effective in preventing aggressive behavior. Therefore, soccer coaches have a great responsibility not only to develop athletes' technical skills but also to shape their character through an integrative and sustainable approach.

Emotional intelligence development predicts novice teachers’ professional identity, teaching enthusiasm, and teacher-student relationships: the mediation of positive teacher emotions

ABSTRACT Teacher development involves the dynamic interplay between emotional intelligence and emotions. While previous research links these factors with their professional identity, teaching enthusiasm, and teacher-student relationships, the development characteristics of emotional intelligence and emotions remain unexplored in relation to these outcomes. In a two-year study with 357 novice teachers, emotional intelligence and emotions were tracked thrice. Data on professional identity, enthusiasm, and teacher-student relationships were collected at the final assessment. Latent growth curve modelling results revealed that only positive emotions, not negative ones, mediate the connection. Specifically, the initial level of positive emotions mediated the link between the initial level of emotional intelligence and teaching enthusiasm, professional identity, and teacher-student relationships. The growth rate of positive emotions notably mediated the relationship between emotional intelligence and professional identity, teaching enthusiasm, and teacher-student relationships. These findings offer new insights into the development of teachers’ emotional intelligence, emotions, and professional growth.

Towards epistemological pluralism and methodological openness in language teacher emotion research

In recent years the notion of emotional labor or emotion labor has gained prominence as an analytically robust concept to explore language teacher emotions in both western and non-western educational settings. The first aim of this article is to examine the applicability of a western concept of emotion labor to the study of language teacher emotions in the Global South/s. Through a comparative case study, we examine how Ecuadorian English-language and Kichwa-language teachers managed emotions while undertaking virtual teaching at the beginning of Covid-19 pandemic. While emotion labor was useful for explaining the former's reported experiences, for the latter, it was only through the Indigenous concept of corazonar rooted in Andean philosophy and cosmology that we could capture their drastically differing accounts. From the perspective of Epistemologies of the South, we argue for a locally sensitive way of theorizing language teacher emotions. We also aim to illustrate the significance of casing and recasing (i.e., a recursive process of linking developing ideas and the evidence that researchers gather) in language teacher emotion research through the investigation of our own analytical processes.

An empirical study on the relationship between emotional labor and work performance among university teachers.

This study is based on the theory of emotional events and explores the relationship between emotional labor and the job performance of university teachers. Relevant data was obtained through a questionnaire, and a structural equation model was constructed for path analysis. The study found that the surface performance of university teachers has a significant negative impact on relationship performance and task performance; deep performance and proactive authenticity of university teachers have a significant positive impact on relationship performance, task performance, and adaptability performance, respectively; the passive reality of university teachers has a significant negative impact on relationship performance, task performance, and adaptability performance. Based on research findings, this study proposes suggestions for the performance evaluation mechanism of university teachers, including improving the recruitment methods, increasing the emotional labor assessment and incentive mechanism, focusing on alleviating negative emotions of teachers, strengthening the awareness guidance and education of school management and teachers on emotional labor, establishing training courses on emotional labor for teachers, arranging various activities reasonably, and creating a good working atmosphere. Ultimately, these suggestions aim to help university teachers recognize the significance of emotional labor, promote their educational and teaching work, and provide new methods and paths for improving the work performance of university teachers.