{"title":"Exploring the mediating role of emotional labor in the relationship between teachers' basic psychological needs and (de)motivating styles","authors":"Aleksandra Huić , Antonija Vrdoljak , Irena Burić","doi":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105145","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the mediating role of teachers' emotional labor between basic psychological needs and (de)motivating teaching styles. In a cross-sectional study with 365 Croatian teachers, we show that emotional labor strategies of genuine expression and deep acting are linked to need satisfaction, while hiding and faking emotions is linked to need frustration. Deep acting seems to act as a mechanism explaining the relationship between need satisfaction and teachers’ use of more autonomy support and structure, and less chaos in classrooms. Faking emotions seems to be the mechanism underlying the relationship between need frustration and controlling teaching.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48430,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Teacher Education","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 105145"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","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/S0742051X25002227","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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This study investigates the mediating role of teachers' emotional labor between basic psychological needs and (de)motivating teaching styles. In a cross-sectional study with 365 Croatian teachers, we show that emotional labor strategies of genuine expression and deep acting are linked to need satisfaction, while hiding and faking emotions is linked to need frustration. Deep acting seems to act as a mechanism explaining the relationship between need satisfaction and teachers’ use of more autonomy support and structure, and less chaos in classrooms. Faking emotions seems to be the mechanism underlying the relationship between need frustration and controlling teaching.
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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.