KOTESOL International Conference 2016
(Concurrent Session)
Mikyoung Lee, University of Munich & Sookmyung Women's University
English Teachers' Emotional Labor, Discrete Emotions, and Classroom Management Efficacy
Abstract
Extending research on teachers' emotions beyond general educational contexts and Western samples, we examined how English teachers' emotions correlated with their emotional labor strategies (ELS) and classroom management self-efficacy (CMSE) with an East-Asian sample in an English teaching context (127 Korean English teachers). Surface acting (emotional expressions modification) correlated positively with anxiety and frustration, whereas deep acting (internal feelings modification) correlated positively with enjoyment and pride and negatively with anxiety. Enjoyment and anger correlated positively and frustration negatively with CMSE. Enjoyment and frustration were mediators in the relationship between ELS and CMSE. Findings suggest that deep acting is linked to experiencing positive emotions, which in turn positively relate to CMSE, whereas surface acting is linked to experiencing negative emotions, which in turn negatively relate to CMSE.
Biographicals
Mikyoung Lee received her PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Munich, her MA in TESOL at Sookmyung Women's University, and her BA at Yonsei University. She is a guest researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Munich as well as a special lecturer in the Graduate School of TESOL at Sookmyung Women's University. Her main research interests are language acquisition, achievement goals and emotions, and teacher emotions and emotional regulation. She has presented her research at the International Conferences such as American Educational Research Association, European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, and KOTESOL.
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