Work Environment Characteristics and Teacher Well-Being: The Mediation of Emotion Regulation Strategies
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Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Educational Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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Academic Editor: Derek Clements-Croome
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2016, 13(9), 907; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13090907
Received: 11 July 2016 / Revised: 21 August 2016 / Accepted: 8 September 2016 / Published: 13 September 2016
Based on an adjusted Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model that considers the mediation of personal resources, this study examined the relationships between two characteristics of teachers’ work environment (i.e., emotional job demands and trust in colleagues) and two indicators of teachers’ well-being (i.e., teaching satisfaction and emotional exhaustion). In particular, the study focused on how emotion regulation strategies (i.e., reappraisal and suppression) mediate these relationships. Data collected from a questionnaire survey of 1115 primary school teachers in Hong Kong was analyzed to test the hypothesized relationships. The results of structural equation modeling indicated that: (1) the emotional job demands of teaching were detrimental to teacher well-being, whereas trust in colleagues was beneficial; (2) both emotion regulation strategies mediated the relationships between both emotional job demands and trust in colleagues and teacher well-being; and (3) teachers who tend to use more reappraisal may be psychologically healthier than those tend to adopt more suppression. These findings support the applicability of the JD-R model to school settings and highlight the role of teachers’ emotion regulation in teachers’ well-being. Implications for the improvement of school environments and teachers’ well-being are identified.
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Keywords:
emotional job demands; trust in colleagues; emotion regulation; teacher well-being; school environment; mediating effect
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Yin, H.; Huang, S.; Wang, W. Work Environment Characteristics and Teacher Well-Being: The Mediation of Emotion Regulation Strategies. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2016, 13, 907.
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