What is it about?
Emotional intelligence and self-efficacy are considered two of the most fundamental teachers’ characteristics to create positive effects on students. In this sense, this is an exploratory study that analyzes how emotional intelligence relates to teacher efficacy.
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Why is it important?
The findings showed that teachers with greater skills at perceiving, understanding, expressing, classifying, managing, and regulating emotions demonstrated greater levels of teaching efficacy. Therefore teachers’ emotional intelligence positively influences teacher efficacy. So, results support the teachers’ emotional intelligence in job performance and add to literature suggesting that to succeed in the complex and demanding school setting, teachers must develop the necessary emotional skills for enhancing their efficacy.
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This study contributes to the importance of being created in the teachers’ academic training, in Portugal, the emotional education discipline.
Sabina Valente
Research Center in Education and Psychology - University of Évora
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This page is a summary of: The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence Ability and Teacher Efficacy, Universal Journal of Educational Research, March 2020, Horizon Research Publishing Co., Ltd.,
DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2020.080324.
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