PE 176

An Investigation of the Gender Differences of EFL Teachers Emotion Regulation Strategies

كارشناسي ارشد

زبان و ادبيات انگليسي گرايش آموزش زبان انگليسي

پيام نور رشت

99/04/15

66ص.

درجه ارزشيابي:خوب

هدي ديوسر

فريدون وحداني

EFL Teachers , Cognitive Reappraisal , Emotion Regulation , Strategies , Expressive Suppression , Gender

ديوسر،هدي،راهنما , وحداني،فريدون،مشاور

This study aimed at finding the nature of emotion regulation strategies among the male and female EFL teachers. To achieve this goal, fifty EFL teachers were selected based on convenient sampling. Three instruments, namely, Emotional Regulation Questionnaire, Teacher Background Questionnaire, and Semi-structured interview were used to collect the necessary data. For the interviews, ten teachers were selected randomly and the interviews were recorded, transcribed, and coded. The results revealed that EFL teachers had higher cognitive reappraisal strategy than expressive expression ones to regulate their emotions by changing their thoughts. In other words, the antecedent-focused emotion regulation were more favorable than the response-focused emotion regulation, and particularly, the cognitive reappraisal were more efficacious than the suppression in boosting positive-emotion expression and mitigating the negative-emotion expression. However, the results of the Pearson chi-square test suggested that there was not any statistically significant correlation between EFL teachers’ gender and the use of emotion regulation strategies. The results of the content analyses of the interviews also revealed that all the teachers tried to stay calm under pressure and made up for the stressful situation. They tried to reduce their negative emotion by thinking positively. Besides, it was found that most EFL teachers tended not to express their negative emotions and tried to conceal them. The study offered some implications for all teachers, students, administrators, teacher education and future research on teacher emotion regulation are offered.

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