What is it about?
Despite secondary school teacher are more prone to acknowledge the cognitive and didactic aspects of their job, emotions are a main part of working at school (above all when the job involves adolescents!). We have shown that when high school teachers feel positive emotions more frequently than negative ones, they have higher self-efficacy and can reduce the negative impact of negative emotions on it.
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Why is it important?
The study suggests that if we train teachers to better acknowledge their emotions, we'll reach higher efficacy levels, as well as more chances for teachers to build positive relationships at school.
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I hope this article would inform teachers about the need to reflect more and acknowledge more on their emotions. I have personally worked with the schools who took part to this research, giving a training about emotional intelligence in teacher-student and teacher-colleague relationship. We need more engagement of teachers in these topics, above all in secondary school.
Ilaria Buonomo
Libera Universita Maria Santissima Assunta
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This page is a summary of: The Impact of Emotions and Hedonic Balance on Teachers’ Self-Efficacy: Testing the Bouncing Back Effect of Positive Emotions, Frontiers in Psychology, July 2019, Frontiers,
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01670.
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