An Evaluation of Teachers' Emotional Labour

Download or read book An Evaluation of Teachers' Emotional Labour written by Hui Wang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In real-world classroom settings, teachers regulate their emotions on a daily basis contributing to a persistent disconnect between the emotions teachers actually experience and those they choose to express. Accordingly, teachers routinely hide or fake discrete positive and negative emotions in the classroom, with this "emotional labour" being associated with not only lower teacher motivation and poorer physical health, but also higher rates of burnout and attrition. The current dissertation represents a composite of three separate manuscripts including both a systematic review as well as large-scale empirical study with 1,086 teachers from across Canada conducted in collaboration with 22 teachers' associations and unions across seven provinces and territories. The first manuscript employed a systematic review and meta-analysis synthesizing the results of previous research concerning teachers' emotional labour, their antecedents, and influences on teachers' psychological, physiological, and behavioural outcomes. The second manuscript utilized advanced structural equation modeling with latent interactions to demonstrate empirical support for hypothesized effects of teachers' personal values, perceived school values, and value congruence on teachers' emotional labour behaviours and psychological adjustment. Finally, the third manuscript provided an intensive methodological perspective concerning the measurement of teachers' emotional labour by way of competitive latent models and a multitrait-multimethod analysis of a newly developed self-report measure of teachers' emotional labour with respect to various discrete emotional experiences. Study findings observed concerning the structure as well as antecedents, correlates, consequences of teachers' emotional labour across these dissertation studies make significant contributions towards better understanding of teachers' motivation, emotions, and emotion expression in the teaching context, and may serve to inform teacher development initiatives by underscoring the critical, multifaceted role of emotional labour for teachers, administrators, and students." --