Emotional experience of caam² in teaching: Power and interpretation of teachers’ work

Emotional experience of caam² in teaching: Power and interpretation of teachers’ work

• Tsang, Kwok Kuen The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Kwong, Tsun Lok BNU-HKBU United International College, Zhuhai

Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 2016

Frontiers Media

2016

• A Human Growth & Development
  • AC Socialization, Self-concept, Self-esteem, Identity, Affective, Emotional, Psycho-social & Moral Development
• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MF Characteristics & Conditions of Educational Workers

Teachers’ work Appraisal Interpretation Power Emotions

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

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The study explores the social psychological process of teachers’ emotional experiences. Twenty-one secondary schoolteachers in Hong Kong were interviewed. The findings show that the teachers generally felt caam² (a Cantonese adjective that covers a range of meanings like gloomy, dreadful, tragic, pitiful, pathetic, and miserable) in teaching. The social psychological process of the emotional experience of caam² involves how teachers interpret the significance of their actual work in attaining the teaching goal of making a difference. If they interpret their work as incapable of fulfilling the goal, they will experience negative emotions in teaching. The findings also suggest that the interpretation is affected by teachers’ power which is unequally distributed according to teachers’ teaching experience and managerial roles. Copyright © 2016 Tsang and Kwong.

• English

Journal Articles

• 16641078

• 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01400

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/b62201c2

2023-02-06