Teachers' emotional experiences at work have important implications for both teachers and students, particularly during challenging behavioral interactions. Understanding how teachers conceptualize the role of their workplace emotions can help school leaders and researchers develop policies and interventions to support teachers in navigating the…

Prior research has shown the importance of collaborative culture as well as teacher job satisfaction and commitment in navigating complex school improvement processes. This study investigated the relationship between collaborative culture, affective commitment, and job satisfaction of teachers taking both collaborative cultures in the entire…

Several large-scale survey efforts have attempted to understand teachers' experiences in the early months of the pandemic. Our study complements this literature by providing direct evidence of teachers' work prior to and after the onset of COVID-19. We leverage unique longitudinal time use and affect data on 131 teachers from one district across…

The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationships between teachers' personal (i.e. psychological capital, social support, ICT skills), job-related factors (i.e. school principal's transformational leadership), their emotional well-being (i.e. positive and negative affect), and their job performance (i.e. task performance and…

Jesuit schools, in particular, have been known for a long time to be centres of learning in Chotanagpur area, India, where tremendous efforts were made to achieve a high level of academic excellence; yet it appears that this legacy is not being sustained among rural, tribal, vernacular schools of Chotanagpur these days because of varied reasons.…

Background: In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a nationwide unplanned transition to distance learning. For teachers, these school closures resulted in a rapid, substantial transformation of their work. To date, however, almost all of the evidence surrounding the effects of COVID-19 on teachers has been collected retrospectively,…

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between teachers' perceptions on diversity perspectives in schools and their happiness at work (HAW) levels. Design/methodology/approach: A correlational survey model was used in the study, and the stratified sample consisted of 768 teachers in public high schools in a province in the west…

The high turnover rates of beginning teachers are an issue of continuing concern in education. However, little is known about the motivational process that encourages beginning teachers to stay in the teaching profession. This study investigated how working conditions (job insecurity, teacher autonomy, collective responsibility, reflective…