Effect of Teachers’ Emotions on Their Students: Some Evidence
Débora Rodrigo-Ruiz
Abstract
This work attempts to compile some of the different effects that professorial emotions have upon students by
searching relevant scientific literature. As a result, presented here is a series of influences, classified by
considering six areas of effects about which empirical evidence has been gathered: students' emotions, emotional
competence, motivation, academic performance, classroom discipline, and social behavior. Furthermore, herein
are expounded both positive and negative effects that come to play in each of the discrete emotions mentioned.
The results reveal that, excluding certain exceptions in the context of specific circumstances, it is determined that
positive emotions provoke positive effects, while negative emotions provoke negative effects. Following is a
discussion of the appropriateness, or lack of the same, in the suppression of negative emotions, encouraging
positive ones; the function of emotional regulation of teachers; and the possible benefits of the inclusion of
emotional competence as a formative part of teacher preparation.
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