Teacher emotions do predict teacher effectiveness: Empirical evidence from Chinese teachers

This chapter reports a study that explored the relationship between teacher emotions and their job performance using 676 teachers in China. The two self-reported instruments, The Teacher Emotion Inventory (TEI) and the Teacher Job Performance Instrument (TJPI), were utilised to examine the relationship between emotions and performance. Results demonstrated that both the in-role and extra-role performance of the TJPI were positively related to pleasant emotions (e.g., love and joy) while extra-role performance was negatively associated by unpleasant emotions (e.g., fear). Fear was the only factor that was negatively related to extra-role performance. Two interesting findings are that sadness was positively influenced by extra-role performance and anger was neither related to in-role performance and extra-role performance. The results in this study provide implications on how teacher emotions influence on their job performance, which has implications for teacher education and professional training programmes aimed at enhancing teaching effectiveness. Copyright © 2023 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.