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  • Article
  • Open Access
188 Citations
19,285 Views
16 Pages

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 coll...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,180 Views
14 Pages

Digital and Mediation Competence for Students’ Safe Use of the Internet: Enhancing Teacher Training

  • Marcos Gómez-Puerta,
  • Esther Chiner,
  • Esther Villegas-Castrillo and
  • Raquel Suriá-Martínez

20 December 2024

Teachers need digital skills to optimise the educational benefits of the Internet and mediate its risks. This study investigates digital and mediation competencies among teachers, focusing on their preparation for guiding students in the safe use of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Empowering Teacher Education with Digital Competences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
320 Views
23 Pages

26 August 2026

This article traces how nontraditional preservice teachers experience the mediation of academic research writing, and how the transition from mediation to independence unfolds in their accounts when the supporting structure is withdrawn. The case cen...

(This article belongs to the Section Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,632 Views
15 Pages

17 November 2025

Based on the Job Demands-Resources model theory, this study examines how school leadership affects inclusive education literacy among teachers in regular classrooms, focusing on the mediating roles of job stress and teacher agency. Using validated sc...

(This article belongs to the Section Educational Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,122 Views
14 Pages

This study explored how Korean students’ happiness impacts depression during their transition from middle to high school, emphasizing teacher relationships as a mediator and peer and parental relationships as moderators. Utilizing data from 214...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,883 Views
16 Pages

Teacher and School Mediation for Online Risk Prevention and Management: Fostering Sustainable Education in the Digital Age

  • Esther Chiner,
  • Marcos Gómez-Puerta,
  • Santiago Mengual-Andrés and
  • Gladys Merma-Molina

19 April 2025

(1) Background: The increasing use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in educational environments has introduced new challenges related to digital safety and sustainability. Teacher mediation and institutional initiatives are pivotal...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,444 Views
17 Pages

Shyness is associated with poorer preschool engagement, but few studies have evaluated the underlying mechanisms in Chinese preschoolers. This study explored the mediating role of teacher–child closeness and the moderating role of child gender...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Innovations in Mental Health and Public Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
886 Views
19 Pages

19 July 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in educational decision-making. This raises important questions about how students perceive and accept outcomes from non-human agents. Based on authority acceptance theory and organizational justice t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Assessment: Opportunities, Challenges, and Ethical Considerations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
11,091 Views
14 Pages

School-based health promotion interventions have been shown to lead to measurable changes in the nutrition and physical activity behaviors. This study examines whether the impact of an intervention program on students’ healthy eating and physic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,070 Views
13 Pages

Higher Education Teachers’ Training in Attention to SEN Students: Testing a Mediation Model

  • Nuria González-Castellano,
  • Eulogio Cordón-Pozo,
  • Silvia Pueyo-Villa and
  • María Jesús Colmenero-Ruiz

27 April 2021

There is growing interest in analyzing the evolution of inclusive education in universities, highlighting the training of teachers as the main barrier to this evolution. The purpose of this study was to analyze, through a mediation model, to what ext...

(This article belongs to the Collection Education, Innovation and Training for Sustainable Development in the Context of COVID-19)
  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,510 Views
11 Pages

This study aimed to investigate the moderated mediation effect of gender and the mediation effect of readiness for change (RC) on self-esteem and technology readiness (TR) among South Korean teachers. Participants were 302 teachers who are living and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,365 Views
16 Pages

Academic Competence, Teacher–Student Relationship, and Violence and Victimisation in Adolescents: The Classroom Climate as a Mediator

  • Teresa I. Jiménez,
  • David Moreno-Ruiz,
  • Estefanía Estévez,
  • Juan Evaristo Callejas-Jerónimo and ,
  • Ginesa López-Crespo and
  • Sonsoles Valdivia-Salas
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

School violence is a serious social and public health problem prevalent worldwide. Although the relevance of teacher and classroom factors is well established in the literature, few studies have focused on the role of teacher perceptions in school vi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue School Climate, Bullying, and School Violence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,552 Views
22 Pages

COVID-19 Stress and Teachers Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Sense of Coherence and Resilience

  • Girum Tareke Zewude,
  • Sisay Demissew Beyene,
  • Belayneh Taye,
  • Fatiha Sadouki and
  • Maria Hercz

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many professions with short-, medium-, and long-term consequences. Hence, this study examined the mediating role of sense of coherence (SOC) and resilience in the relation to COVID-19 stress and teac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mental Health during COVID-19 Pandemic: What Do We Know So Far?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,271 Views
11 Pages

Parent–child conflict can have a series of negative consequences concerning youth emotional and behavioral development. The link between family conflict and children’s externalizing symptoms is well established, whereas the association wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,449 Views
15 Pages

(1) Background: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between social support in the workplace for childcare teachers, resilience, and self-care. This study explores the inner mechanism that helps to strengthen self-care of childcar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantitative Analysis Using Public Healthcare Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,519 Views
15 Pages

17 October 2025

This study examined the relationships among principals’ servant leadership, kindergarten teachers’ professional well-being, psychological empowerment, and an inclusive atmosphere. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 531 kindergarten...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Educator Well-Being and Resilience: Paradigms, Pathways, and Possibilities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,830 Views
18 Pages

19 October 2025

Teacher innovation is critical for fostering student creativity, enhancing school effectiveness, and advancing national talent strategies. Grounded in the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions and social information processing theory, this st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Educator Well-Being and Resilience: Paradigms, Pathways, and Possibilities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,508 Views
11 Pages

Educational Potential of Artistic Mediation with Children at Risk of Exclusion Through Teachers’ Narratives

  • María Dolores López-Martínez,
  • Margarita Campillo Díaz and
  • Amalia Ayala de la Peña

30 January 2026

The research explores the educational potential of artistic mediation with children at risk of social exclusion, drawing on the narratives of twenty early years and primary school teachers. Using a qualitative, phenomenological approach, it examines...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI Trends in Teacher and Student Training)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
12,484 Views
13 Pages

21 January 2023

Teacher social-emotional competence plays a crucial role in teacher professional development as it is associated with effective stress alleviation at work. However, how and under what conditions teacher social-emotional competence contributes to job...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
6,248 Views
12 Pages

27 June 2023

Recent studies have shown the crucial role of students’ perceived English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher support in their academic learning within their immediate social environments. Nevertheless, little is known about the intricate links...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Educational Research for Sustainability: A Focus on Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century)
  • Article
  • Open Access
493 Views
28 Pages

16 September 2026

Play and toys are central resources for learning; however, their integration into schooling is typically traversed by curricular, evaluative, disciplinary, and institutional tensions, particularly in resource-limited contexts. This study examined the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,397 Views
20 Pages

The leadership structure within educational institutions has a significant bearing on teacher job satisfaction (TJS). This study employs data from the OECD’s Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS 2018) specific to Shanghai to constr...

(This article belongs to the Topic Leadership and Employee Well-Being: Fostering a Healthy Work Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,826 Views
19 Pages

12 December 2025

University teachers are key contributors to achieving the objectives of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and their work engagement directly influences teaching quality, research productivity, and student development. However, the role of...

(This article belongs to the Topic Well-Being and Coping Strategies in Educational Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
19,355 Views
13 Pages

26 May 2022

This study investigated the effects of school-related factors (i.e., transformational leadership) and teacher-related factors (i.e., teachers’ growth mindset and self-efficacy) in teachers’ sustainable professional development, as indicat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Understanding Teachers’ Emotions and Well-being for Sustainable School Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
727 Views
19 Pages

Can Digital Literacy Sustain Inclusive Teachers? The Mediating Roles of Time Poverty and Efficacy Between Digital Literacy and Burnout

  • Hanyu Xiao,
  • Ziyao Liu,
  • Hongli Xiao,
  • Zhaoying He and ,
  • Tongao Zeng,
  • Han Zhu and
  • Linyan Ruan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 June 2026

Severe occupational burnout among inclusive teachers poses a significant threat to building resilient and sustainable inclusive education systems. In the context of educational digital transformation, digital literacy emerges as a vital resource with...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A New Paradigm in Teacher Education: Sustainability in Teacher Training)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
711 Views
31 Pages

Digital game-based learning is increasingly used to support children’s engagement, interaction, and social–emotional development. However, its contribution to emotional intelligence, particularly in inclusive classroom contexts, remains t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Development of Children’s Emotional Intelligence: Digital Games, Technologies and Practical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,402 Views
16 Pages

Background: The COVID-19 outbreak caused severe changes in school activities over the past two years. Teachers underwent a re-planning of their teaching approaches, shifting from face-to-face teaching formats to remote ones. These challenges resulted...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Changes in Psychic Life and Psychological Treatments during COVID-19 Pandemic)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,619 Views
14 Pages

This investigation aimed to explore the mediator role of study engagement (i.e., study vigor and dedication) in the association between self- and other-focused emotion regulation abilities and occupational commitment in a sample of pre-service teache...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Occupational Stress and Health: Psychological Burden and Burnout)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
904 Views
15 Pages

Background: Environmental health literacy plays an important role in helping individuals recognize environmental risks and adopt sustainable behaviors. Increasing environmental awareness may also influence emotional responses to environmental problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
185 Views
25 Pages

14 October 2026

Preparing pre-service teachers to use artificial intelligence (AI) critically and equitably is part of the quality-education agenda of Sustainable Development Goal 4. Within a framework informed by the theory of planned behaviour, this study examined...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
750 Views
17 Pages

29 July 2026

Drawing on Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) framework, this study tested a moderated mediation model in which two dimensions of GenAI-assisted teaching predict children’s creative learning enga...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Motivation and Emotions in Learning Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,220 Views
21 Pages

2 January 2025

This study is correlational and cross-sectional quantitative research that examines the moderating role of working time with the school principal on the effect of leader–member exchange on teachers’ job performance through organisational...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behaviors in Educational Settings—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,084 Views
12 Pages

11 February 2022

Teacher burnout is a psychological phenomenon affecting teachers’ effectiveness and wellbeing across the globe. Thus, education researchers have investigated its antecedents to identify approaches to alleviate teacher burnout. However, many of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Contextual and Psychological Variables Facilitating Psychosocial Well-being and Adjustment: Perspectives for a Sustainable Psychological Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
281 Views
25 Pages

Technology-Mediated Scaffolding to Support Critical Thinking in Pre-Service Teachers’ Academic Writing

  • Silvana Arriagada Anabalón,
  • Miguel Nussbaum Voehl,
  • Nicolás Navarro and
  • Joaquín Araya

8 October 2026

Developing critical thinking skills (CTS) is a central goal of higher education, yet pre-service teachers often receive little explicit guidance on how to apply them in academic or professional writing. This study reports the design, implementation,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Developing Teachers' Professional Knowledge)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,897 Views
24 Pages

The Buffering Effect of Spirituality at Work on the Mediated Relationship between Job Demands and Turnover Intention among Teachers

  • Edyta Charzyńska,
  • Irena Polewczyk,
  • Joanna Góźdź,
  • Małgorzata Kitlińska-Król and
  • Magdalena Sitko-Dominik

17 September 2021

The purpose of this study was to examine whether spirituality at work moderates the direct and indirect (through burnout) effects of quantitative and emotional job demands on turnover intention among teachers. The sample consisted of 952 Polish prima...

(This article belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,117 Views
13 Pages

The Socio-Educational Adaptation of Secondary School Migrant Students in Sicily: Migrant Generation, School Linguistic Mediation and Teacher Proactivity Factors

  • José Juan Carrión-Martínez,
  • Stefania Ciaccio,
  • María del Mar Fernández-Martínez,
  • Carmen María Hernández-Garre and
  • María Dolores Pérez-Esteban

15 July 2021

This study aims to analyze the implications of linguistic mediation processes and educational proactivity in schools for the socio-educational adaptation of immigrant students. The study is based on empirical research and the perspectives of the main...

(This article belongs to the Section International Migration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
10,361 Views
22 Pages

During the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers had to conduct online classes because of the breakdown of school learning. Teacher competence has a great impact on the students’ learning outcomes in online learning. Teacher resilience is also important...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Age at Work, Well-Being, and COVID-Related Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,164 Views
15 Pages

8 June 2023

Motivating a teacher’s work engagement has been brought into focus within the educational field, yet there has been deficient detail on how leader-expressed humility may influence a physical education teacher’s work engagement. Based on social inform...

(This article belongs to the Section Health, Well-Being and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,524 Views
14 Pages

31 October 2023

The teacher–child relationship is a key element in measuring the quality of childcare institutions and is essential to the current and future physical and mental developmental outcomes of children. The purpose of this study is to investigate th...

(This article belongs to the Section Educational Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,576 Views
17 Pages

This study aimed to investigate secondary students’ mathematics achievement emotions and their mediating effects on the relationships between classroom environmental characteristics, namely, teacher–student interactional styles (i.e., tea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mental Health of Child and Young People)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,180 Views
16 Pages

7 April 2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, university teachers need to spend time and energy getting used to the online teaching system and adapting their teaching materials to the new teaching mode. According to the social cognitive theory, teachers’ techn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Understanding Teachers’ Emotions and Well-being for Sustainable School Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,846 Views
13 Pages

15 February 2023

The objective of this study was to analyze the mediating role of strategies to maintain classroom discipline between the motivational climate generated by the teacher and the students’ satisfaction with physical education classes. The research...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behaviors That Affect the Learning Process in High School and University)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,499 Views
23 Pages

7 April 2025

Piano proficiency is essential for pre-service preschool educators; nevertheless, numerous candidates begin teacher education programs with little prior experience, exhibiting poor self-efficacy and limited musical competencies required for effective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
614 Views
20 Pages

3 August 2026

This study investigates how human–machine collaboration depth is associated with teacher burnout during educational digital transformation. Grounded in Conservation of Resources theory, cross-sectional survey data from 489 Chinese university te...

(This article belongs to the Topic Well-Being and Coping Strategies in Educational Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,375 Views
16 Pages

Teacher Emotional Support and Adolescent Student Burnout: A Moderated Mediation Model of Family Cohesion and Meaning in Life

  • Peng Li,
  • Lifang Fan,
  • Xintao Wen,
  • Meng Guo and ,
  • Wenbin Feng and
  • Ye Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 June 2026

(1) Background: Student burnout, widely regarded as a form of “hidden dropout” among adolescents, is associated with lower educational quality and mental health. Grounded in the Study Demands–Resources (SD–R) and Conservation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,472 Views
19 Pages

12 April 2024

Cultural diffusion and a paradigm shift from a “skill-based” approach to an “action-oriented” approach in language pedagogy transform the functions of an educator in a foreign language classroom. A language instructor accepts...

(This article belongs to the Section Language and Literacy Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
463 Views
15 Pages

Background/Objectives: Interparental conflict increases adolescents’ risk of peer bullying victimization, yet its underlying mechanisms remain underexplored. This study sought to examine whether depressive symptoms mediate the longitudinal rela...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research and Survey on the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents: Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
672 Views
24 Pages

Visual Literacy in Teacher Education: Narrative Reconstruction and AI Mediation in Warja Lavater’s Cendrillon

  • Sebastián Miras,
  • Copelia Mateo-Guillén,
  • José Rovira-Collado and
  • Ignacio Ballester Pardo

3 September 2026

This study examines the development of visual literacy in teacher education through a classroom experience based on Cendrillon, the coded picturebook by Warja Lavater. The activity required students to reconstruct the sequence of the book’s twe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Creative Thinking and Visual Arts Education: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ecologies of Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,583 Views
33 Pages

17 May 2025

Despite advancements in information and technology, the benefits of online education for mathematically gifted students remain underexplored. In response, this study investigated the impacts of teacher competencies on students’ sustainable deve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,268 Views
13 Pages

26 March 2026

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), known for its personalization and intelligence, is gaining traction in special education as a tool to address diverse learner needs. As future key practitioners integrating intelligent technology to promote...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Based Assessment and Learning Analytics: Psychological Constructs, Validity and the Human-in-the-Loop in AI-Enabled Education)

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