Frenzel, Anne C., Pekrun, Reinhard, Goetz, Thomas et al. (4 more authors) (2016) Measuring teachers' enjoyment, anger, and anxiety:The Teacher Emotions Scales (TES). Contemporary Educational Psychology. pp. 148-163. ISSN 0361-476X
Abstract
The emotions of teachers are considered relevant not only for their own well-being but also for the functioning of classrooms. Nevertheless, research on teacher emotions has been slow to emerge, and scales for their assessment via self-report are generally lacking. In the present research we developed four-item scales for three emotions considered most relevant in the context of teaching: enjoyment, anger, and anxiety (Teacher Emotions Scales, TES). Based on data of 944 teachers, we tested German and English language versions of the TES for reliability, internal and external validity, and cross-language equivalence, while exploring the utility of both a general and a student-group specific variant. All scales proved to be highly reliable, and confirmatory factor analysis supported internal validity by showing that three-factor models (enjoyment, anger, and anxiety) were superior to single-factor or two-factor (positive vs. negative affect) models. The external validation analyses provided consistent evidence for theoretically meaningful relations with teachers' general affect, burnout, job satisfaction, and teacher self-efficacy. These findings were robust across multiple studies. In addition, consistent relationships with student ratings of teaching behaviors were found. Analyses of measurement invariance revealed that the English and the German language versions were fully structurally equivalent und displayed metric invariance.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016, the publisher. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
Keywords: | Cross-language measurement invariance analysis,Instrument validation,Teacher anger,Teacher anxiety,Teacher enjoyment |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Education (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 16 May 2016 14:48 |
Last Modified: | 26 Jan 2025 00:09 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.05.003 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.05.003 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:99438 |
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