Journal of Psychological Science ›› 2024, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (1): 61-69.DOI: 10.16719/j.cnki.1671-6981.20240108

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The Reciprocal Relations Between Professional Identity and Teacher Emotions: A Longitudinal Study on Pre-Service and Novice Teachers

Sun Mengmeng, Ji Yajing, Wu Yinlin, Ying Kuilin, Chen Xuhai   

  1. School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi' an, 710062
  • Online:2024-01-20 Published:2024-01-30

教师职业认同感和教师情绪的纵向关联:职前到职初的追踪研究*

孙梦梦, 姬雅静, 吴胤霖, 应奎霖, 陈煦海**   

  1. 陕西师范大学心理学院,西安,710062
  • 通讯作者: **陈煦海,E-mail: shiningocean@snnu.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    *本研究得到教育部人文社科一般项目(19YJA190001)和陕西省教师教育改革一般项目(SJS2022YB012)的资助

Abstract: With the gradual development of education reform, normal university students have become the reserve army of teachers. The new wave of education reform driven by "double reduction" has put forward new requirements for teachers, and it is urgent to further explore the formation mechanism and development characteristics of teachers' professional identity, so as to provide reference for teacher cultivation in the new era. Previous studies have shown that teacher emotions and professional identity are the key factors affecting teacher career development, and pleasant emotional events confirmed their identities and others elaborated the unpleasant emotional events which caused them to confront and adjust their emergent identities. In addition, some studies have found that there was an interactive effect between novice teachers' emotional experience and professional identity. Not only professional identity affects teachers' emotional experience, but also teachers' behaviors and emotions affect the formation of their professional identity.
However, most studies only examine the influence of teachers' professional identity on their emotions or the influence of teachers' emotions on their professional identity. Few studies have investigated their bidirectional relationship. But it is worth noting that Jiang et al. (2021) provided a series of vivid and dynamic pictures for teachers' emotions and professional identity through a three-year longitudinal case study, which revealed the process of creating new or multiple professional identities, and the generation process of teacher emotions could be intertwined and developed together. Therefore, we designed a three-year longitudinal study to investigate the relations between teachers’ professional identity and emotions.
In order to explore the mutual predictive relationship between teachers’ professional identity and positive and negative emotions from junior normal students to novice teachers, four theoretical models are proposed by the method of cross lag analysis. The models are compared with χ2(df), CFI, TLI, RMSEA, and SRMR. Participants were junior normal university students located in various parts of China. Data were collected at three time points in 2018, 2019, and 2020, creating a lag of approximately 1 year. Each participant completed the Professional Identity Scale and the Teacher’s Emotions Scale. After deleting invalid questionnaire, a total of 284 valid questionnaires were obtained. Finally, the collected data were analyzed using SPSS 22.0 and Mplus 7.0, including repeated measurement of variance analysis, correlation analysis and path analysis of cross lag model.
The results are as follows: (1) Pearson correlation analysis shows that participants' professional identity, positive and negative emotions all have moderate positive autocorrelation at several time points, indicating that these variables had certain cross-time stability. Participants’ professional identity is positively correlated with positive emotions, but not with negative emotions. (2) Paired sample T test finds that novice teachers’ positive and negative emotions are significantly lower than that during internship. The professional identity score shows a trend of rising first and then falling. One-way repeated measurement ANOVA finds that the main effect of measurement time is significant, and the post-experience comparison shows that the professional identity during internship is significantly higher than that in Time 1 and Time 3, and there was no significant difference between the latter two. (3) Cross-lagged analysis shows that professional identity at Time 1 can positively predict their positive emotions, but not negative emotions at Time 2. Professional identity at Time 2 can positively predict their positive emotions, but not negative emotions at Time 3. Positive emotions at Time 2 can positively predict their professional identity at Time 3, but negative emotions at Time 2 cannot predict their professional identity at Time 3.
Therefore, these results suggested that teacher positive emotions and professional identity had an interactive promoting effect. Teacher education should grasp the critical period of pre-service to novice to enhance teacher professional identity and emotional competence, so as to promote the development of teachers.

Key words: teacher education, teacher emotions, professional identity, cross lagged analysis

摘要: 教师情绪和职业认同感是教师发展的关键因素,已有研究发现二者显著相关,但未揭示二者从职前到职初的发展特征和纵向关联。本研究调查284名师范生在大三、实习和职初的职业认同感和后两个时点的教师情绪,结果发现:实习期职业认同感高于大三和职初;职初的积极情绪和消极情绪均低于实习期;实习期和职初的职业认同感仅与积极情绪存在往复式影响。这表明教师教育应基于教师情绪与职业认同感交互促进的规律同步推进二者培育。

关键词: 教师教育, 职业认同感, 教师情绪, 交叉滞后分析