Teachers are constantly interacting with students, parents, colleagues and head teachers at the classroom and the school environment. The emotion of the teacher is directly reflected in the role of the teacher in this environment, and therefore crucia...
Teachers are constantly interacting with students, parents, colleagues and head teachers at the classroom and the school environment. The emotion of the teacher is directly reflected in the role of the teacher in this environment, and therefore crucial to the educational capabilities of the teacher. In this study, the implications of emotional labor and emotional regulation on the educational capabilities of the teacher is explored, with emphasis on job stress, burnout, and teacher-efficacy. Specifically, the two aspects of emotional labor, surface acting and deep acting, and emotion regulation were set as the independent variables, and job stress, burnout, and teacher-efficacy were set as the dependent variables of the research problem. A survey of 434 high school teachers in the Seoul, Kyunggi, and Incheon regions was performed for this study.
From analysis of the results of this study, surface acting in emotional labor were found to have significantly positive effects, while emotion regulation was found to have significantly negative effects on job stress. In addition, concerning burnout, surface acting are shown to have significantly positive effects, while emotion regulation are shown to have significantly negative effects. On the other hand, surface acting are shown to have significantly negative effects, while emotion regulation is shown to have significantly positive effects on teacher-efficacy. However, deep acting in emotional labor had no significant effect on the dependent variables such as job stress, burnout, and teacher-efficacy.
Based on these findings, the following discussions are presented. First of all, the teacher must acknowledge the importance of emotional well-being in the interaction with students, and work to effectively control and manage one's emotion. In addition, the society must show more concern for the emotion and well-being of the teachers. The implications of this study can be stated in studying the teacher's emotion regarding teacher-student interactions and performance from the point of view of emotional labor and emotion regulation, with consideration of both the positive (teacher-efficacy) and negative (job stress, burnout) variables. The findings from this study provide foundation for essential further research on the emotion of teachers.