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Measuring teachers' enjoyment, anger, and anxiety : The Teacher Emotions Scales (TES). / Frenzel, Anne C.; Pekrun, Reinhard; Goetz, Thomas; Daniels, Lia; Durksen, Tracy; Becker-Kurz, Betty; Klassen, Robert Mark.
In: Contemporary Educational Psychology, Vol. 46, 01.07.2016, p. 148-163.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Measuring teachers' enjoyment, anger, and anxiety
T2 - The Teacher Emotions Scales (TES)
AU - Frenzel, Anne C.
AU - Pekrun, Reinhard
AU - Goetz, Thomas
AU - Daniels, Lia
AU - Durksen, Tracy
AU - Becker-Kurz, Betty
AU - Klassen, Robert Mark
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PY - 2016/7/1
Y1 - 2016/7/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Cross-language measurement invariance analysis
KW - Instrument validation
KW - Teacher anger
KW - Teacher anxiety
KW - Teacher enjoyment
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.05.003
DO - 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.05.003
M3 - Article
VL - 46
SP - 148
EP - 163
JO - Contemporary Educational Psychology
JF - Contemporary Educational Psychology
SN - 0361-476X
ER -