Poster #8 - Susceptibility to Emotional Contagion Relates to Teachers' Emotions and Burnout

• In Event: 18.060 - MTCC Poster Session Two
  In Poster Session: 18.060-2 - Emotion Regulation and Affective Experiences in Learning Contexts

Abstract

In recent years, educational research has started to not only focus on learners' motivation and emotions, but also on teachers' emotional experiences. It has been shown that teachers’ and students’ enjoyment were related over the course of a school year, likely due to a process called emotional contagion (Authors, 2017). The present study examines teachers’ individual susceptibility to emotional contagion and its relation to their discrete emotions while teaching and burnout. Our results suggest that higher levels of susceptibility to emotional contagion of negative emotions are associated with higher levels of negative emotions and burnout, and less enjoyment. Whereas susceptibility to emotional contagion of positive emotions is linked to higher levels of joy and lower levels of negative emotions.

Authors

• Anton Karl Georg Marx, University of Munich

• Anne C. Frenzel, University of Munich (LMU)

• Corinna Reck, University of Munich

• Nathania Klauser, University of Munich

• Mitho Mueller, University of Munich

• Reinhard Pekrun, University of Essex