This is Depressing: The Emotional Labor of Teaching During the Pandemic Spring 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 107769582110129
Author(s):  
Giselle A. Auger ◽  
Melanie J. Formentin
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Surface Acting ◽  
Mixed Methods Design ◽  
Sequential Mixed Methods ◽  
Teacher Surveys ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Support Students ◽  
Feeling Overwhelmed

The COVID-19 pandemic affected teachers and students worldwide. In March 2020, more than 5,000 teachers reported feeling overwhelmed, sad, fearful, anxious, and worried. We evaluated those feelings through the lens of emotional labor using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design. Results indicated that professors were experiencing signs of emotional exhaustion as the result of surface acting—the disconnect they felt between trying to reassure and support students when they themselves felt sad and anxious. Results supported findings from several student and teacher surveys regarding stress and COVID-19. It also supported prior research that found gender differences in extent of emotional labor.

scholarly journals The relationships between emotional labor and job-related variables

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 683-717
Author(s):  
MoonSook Kim ◽  
YeSil Kim ◽  
Soonmook Lee
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Analytic Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Surface Acting ◽  
Deep Acting ◽  
Criterion Variables

The purpose of this study is to meta-analyze the relationships between the emotional labor and job-related variables such as burnout, turnover intention, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment among Korean emotional workers. In total, there were 11835 employees from 43 studies that were meta-analysed in the present study using Hunter and Schmidt(2004)’s and Borenstein et al.(2009)’s procedures. It was revealed that emotional labors, depending on whether they were surface acting or deep acting, have different relationships with criterion variables. That is, the surface acting was positively related with emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and turnover intention. In contrast, the deep acting was negatively related with emotional depersonalization and positively related with organizational commitment. It was revealed that professionality of service was a thoretical moderator and source of papers was a methodological moderator. Comparing with a meta-analytic study in Western literature, it was shown that deep acting strategy would bring desirable results to organizations in terms of the relationships between emotional labors and criterion variables such as burnout, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. Lastly, implications and limitations of the study, and directions for future research were discussed.

Essential precursors and effects of employee creativity in a service context

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 733-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inyong Shin ◽  
Won-Moo Hur ◽  
Hongseok Oh
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Flight Attendants ◽  
Surface Acting ◽  
Employee Creativity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
High Level

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the emotional labor strategies of service employees differently influence the level of their creativity, and whether creative employees consequently benefit from that creativity in terms of achieving a high level of job performance. Design/methodology/approach – The authors surveyed flight attendants from an airline in South Korea. The authors distributed 150 questionnaires to flight attendants, received 126 responses, and finally obtained 119 usable data. The authors used Mplus 7.13 to evaluate validity and test the hypotheses. Findings – Whereas employees using deep acting were found to be less emotionally exhausted and more affectively committed toward their organization, which produced a high level of creativity, those who selected surface acting were shown to suffer more emotional exhaustion and have less affective commitment, which generated a low level of creativity. Customer service personnel behaving creatively resulted in superior official job performance appraisals. Originality/value – This study makes distinct contributions to the literature by proposing emotional labor as the key antecedent of employee creativity in service organizations, by confirming emotional exhaustion and affective commitment as the motivational mechanisms through which emotional labor strategies influence service employee creativity, and by suggesting the value of employee creativity.

scholarly journals Is Familism a Motivator or Stressor? Relationships Between Confucian Familism, Emotional Labor, Work-Family Conflict, and Emotional Exhaustion Among Chinese Teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoshuang Zhu ◽  
Guoxiu Tian ◽  
Hongbiao Yin ◽  
Wenjie He
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Surface Acting ◽  
Chinese Teachers ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Work Family

To reveal the cultural effect in the job demands-resources model, this study examined how Confucian familism, emotional labor, and work-family conflict (WFC) explain the variance in teachers’ emotional exhaustion, with a focus on the mediating roles of emotional labor and WFC. With a sample of 3,312 teachers in China, the results of this study revealed that surface acting and expression of naturally felt emotion (ENFE) and WFC mediated the relationship between familism and emotional exhaustion. Moreover, familism positively predicted deep acting, ENFE, WFC, and emotional exhaustion, while negatively predicted surface acting. These findings suggest that Confucian familism may play the dual role of motivator and stressor for Chinese teachers’ emotional labor and well-being. This study contributes to the job demands-resources theory by revealing the important role of cultural traditions and provides valuable information for interventions to sustain teacher well-being.

Employees' Emotional Labor and Emotional Exhaustion: Trust and Gender as Moderators

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 733-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenlan Wang ◽  
Shenghua Huang ◽  
Hongbiao Yin ◽  
Zheng Ke
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Surface Acting ◽  
Deep Acting ◽  
Service Employees ◽  
Trust Relationships ◽  
Men Managers ◽  
And Gender

In order to obtain a comprehensive insight into the nature of service employees' emotional labor, we examined the effect of gender and employees' trust in colleagues on the relationship between their emotional labor and emotional exhaustion. We focused on two emotional labor strategies: surface acting and deep acting. Participants comprised 679 Chinese service employees. The results showed that trust in colleagues strengthened the negative relationship between employees' deep acting and emotional exhaustion but also exacerbated the positive relationship between employees' surface acting and emotional exhaustion. The exacerbating effect of trust was especially strong for female surface actors. The findings suggest that women have a propensity for risk aversion and are more sensitive to the establishment of trust relationships than are men. Managers should consider surface acting as part of the makeup of the psychological well-being of employees.

scholarly journals Role of Leaders’ Emotional Labor toward Leader’s Job Satisfaction and Emotional Exhaustion: Moderating Role of Psychological Capital

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Sania Noreen ◽  
Qasim Ali Nisar ◽  
Shahbaz Haider ◽  
Tan Fee Yean
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Surface Acting ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Relationship

Everyone has to manage the emotions during their interaction with others; similar case is with the leaders in organizations. Leaders’ actively and continually regulate their emotional state. The crucial role of emotions in interactional process as well in decision making triggers leaders to be vigilant about their emotional labor strategies. Thus emotional labor has become an emerging construct in leadership domain. This study has collected data from 250 doctors working in private and public hospitals in Gujranwala. Findings demonstrated leaders’ deep acting as well as displaying natural emotions are positively associated with job satisfaction and negatively associated with leaders’ emotional exhaustion. Moreover, surface acting has significant positive relationship with leaders’ emotional exhaustion and negative relationship with leaders’ job satisfaction. Psychological capital significantly moderated the relationship between leaders’ emotional labor strategies, leaders’ job satisfaction and leaders’ emotional exhaustion.

scholarly journals Stress Reactivity Influences the Relationship between Emotional Labor Strategies and Job Burnouts among Chinese Hospital Nurses

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Huihua Deng ◽  
Hanyao Wu ◽  
Xingliang Qi ◽  
Caixiang Jin ◽  
Jianmei Li
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Stress Reactivity ◽  
Job Burnout ◽  
Hospital Nurses ◽  
Hair Cortisol ◽  
Surface Acting ◽  
Deep Acting ◽  
Cortisol Levels

Extant studies mostly focused on the buffering role of social and external organizational resources and personal mental resources. However, there is no research exploring the moderating role of personal physiological resources (e.g., stress reactivity). The present study is aimed at examining the interactive effect of emotional labor and stress reactivity on job burnout. The present study utilized cortisol content in a 1 cm hair segment as the biomarker of total stress reactivity in one month. The participants were 229 female hospital nurses randomly recruited from city hospitals, China. They self-reported their emotional labor strategies and job burnout syndromes and provided 1 cm hair segments closest to the scalp two weeks later after the survey. Hair cortisol content was determined with high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. The results revealed that hair cortisol can moderate the associations of surface acting with emotional exhaustion and personal burnout; of deep acting with emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal burnout; and of expression of naturally felt emotions with professional inefficacy. In particular, nurses with high cortisol levels not only showed higher emotional exhaustion than those with low cortisol levels under high surface acting but also showed lower emotional exhaustion under low surface acting. A similar situation was true for nurses’ emotional exhaustion and depersonalization in the context of deep acting. Nurses with low hair cortisol levels not only showed higher professional inefficacy than those with high hair cortisol levels under low expression of naturally felt emotions but also showed lower professional inefficacy under high expression of naturally felt emotions. Additionally, nurses with high hair cortisol levels showed lower personal burnout than those with low hair cortisol levels under low surface acting or high deep acting. In summary, the interaction pattern between stress reactivity and emotional labor was varied with the nature of emotional labor strategy and job burnout.

scholarly journals Teachers’ Emotional Labour and Burnout: Does Perceived Organizational Support Matter?

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith A. Anomneze ◽  
Dorothy I. Ugwu ◽  
Ibeawuchi K. Enwereuzor ◽  
Leonard I. Ugwu
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Perceived Organizational Support ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Surface Acting ◽  
Deep Acting ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Interaction Terms

<p>The study investigated the moderating role of perceived organizational support on emotional labour–burnout relation among 323 secondary school teachers in Enugu State, Nigeria. Participants completed the Teacher Emotional Labor Scale (TELS), Survey of Perceived Organizational Support (SPOS), and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). Results showed that surface acting, deep acting, and POS significantly predicted emotional exhaustion. Only deep acting and POS significantly predicted depersonalization whereas surface acting did not. Both the two-way interaction terms between surface acting and POS, and that between deep acting and POS were not significant in predicting either emotional exhaustion or depersonalization.</p>

Emotional intelligence, emotional labor strategies and satisfaction of secondary teachers in Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 721-733
Author(s):  
Sonia Pervaiz ◽  
Amjad Ali ◽  
Muhammad Asif
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Secondary Teachers ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Surface Acting ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Teaching Satisfaction

Purpose Emotional intelligence (EI) is crucial to determine the emotional labor (EL) strategies and satisfaction of teachers. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships of EI with EL strategies, emotional exhaustion and teaching satisfaction (TS) of secondary teachers in private schools. Design/methodology/approach A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data conveniently from 322 secondary teachers working in 22 private schools. Findings Results indicate that teachers’ EI positively affect surface acting, expression of naturally felt emotions (ENFE) and TS. Surface acting and ENFE are positively related with TS. Deep acting and ENFE exhibit positive relations with emotional exhaustion of teachers. The study also confirms direct as well as indirect effects of EI on TS through surface acting and ENFE. Practical implications This study recommends teachers to make a higher use of surface acting and ENFE because they produce the most TS and the least emotional exhaustion. Originality/value This is the first study that examines the mediating role of EL strategies for EI and TS.

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