Relationship Between Emotional Labor and Mental Health in Preschool Teachers: Mediation of Psychological Capital

This study explored the relationship among the emotional labor, psychological capital, and mental health of preschool teachers. A questionnaire survey was conducted on 411 preschool teachers in China. The results revealed the following: (1) One emotional labor strategy (Surface acting) had a signifi...

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Autores principales: Hong, Yao, Huang, Jian-Hao, Zhang, Jiping
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8827471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35153947
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.707961
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description This study explored the relationship among the emotional labor, psychological capital, and mental health of preschool teachers. A questionnaire survey was conducted on 411 preschool teachers in China. The results revealed the following: (1) One emotional labor strategy (Surface acting) had a significant negative effect on mental health, whereas two emotional labor strategies (expression of naturally felt emotions and deep acting) had significant positive effects. (2) The psychological capital of preschool teachers had a complete mediation on the relationship between expression of naturally felt emotions and mental health and between the deep acting and mental health.
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spelling pubmed-88274712022-02-10 Relationship Between Emotional Labor and Mental Health in Preschool Teachers: Mediation of Psychological Capital Hong, Yao Huang, Jian-Hao Zhang, Jiping Front Psychol Psychology This study explored the relationship among the emotional labor, psychological capital, and mental health of preschool teachers. A questionnaire survey was conducted on 411 preschool teachers in China. The results revealed the following: (1) One emotional labor strategy (Surface acting) had a significant negative effect on mental health, whereas two emotional labor strategies (expression of naturally felt emotions and deep acting) had significant positive effects. (2) The psychological capital of preschool teachers had a complete mediation on the relationship between expression of naturally felt emotions and mental health and between the deep acting and mental health. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8827471/ /pubmed/35153947 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.707961 Text en Copyright © 2022 Hong, Huang and Zhang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8827471/
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