{"title":"Profiles of teacher self-efficacy and their relations to teacher demographics and affective well-being: A social cognitive perspective","authors":"Yi Sun, Hongbiao Yin","doi":"10.1016/j.tate.2024.104855","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding teachers’ self-efficacy and affective well-being is crucial, particularly in the Chinese context where teachers face unique cultural and professional expectations. Adopting a social cognitive perspective, this study used latent profile analysis on 1264 Chinese teachers to explore teacher self-efficacy profiles and their relationship with demographics and affective well-being. Four distinct self-efficacy profiles were identified. Teaching experience and school level significantly predicted profile membership, while gender and school location did not. Differences in affective well-being were found across profiles, though anxiety and depression did not significantly differ between some profiles. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings were discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48430,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Teacher Education","volume":"154 ","pages":"Article 104855"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Teaching and Teacher Education","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0742051X24003883","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Understanding teachers’ self-efficacy and affective well-being is crucial, particularly in the Chinese context where teachers face unique cultural and professional expectations. Adopting a social cognitive perspective, this study used latent profile analysis on 1264 Chinese teachers to explore teacher self-efficacy profiles and their relationship with demographics and affective well-being. Four distinct self-efficacy profiles were identified. Teaching experience and school level significantly predicted profile membership, while gender and school location did not. Differences in affective well-being were found across profiles, though anxiety and depression did not significantly differ between some profiles. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings were discussed.
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Teaching and Teacher Education is an international journal concerned primarily with teachers, teaching, and/or teacher education situated in an international perspective and context. The journal focuses on early childhood through high school (secondary education), teacher preparation, along with higher education concerning teacher professional development and/or teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education is a multidisciplinary journal committed to no single approach, discipline, methodology, or paradigm. The journal welcomes varied approaches (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods) to empirical research; also publishing high quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Manuscripts should enhance, build upon, and/or extend the boundaries of theory, research, and/or practice in teaching and teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education does not publish unsolicited Book Reviews.