Are teachers' and students' emotions reciprocally transmitted in the classroom?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding teachers' and students' emotions in the classroom is acknowledged as beneficial for teaching and learning. While existing studies have emphasized the relationships between teachers and students, it remains unclear how teachers' and students' emotions are transmitted from one lesson to the next.

Aims

We investigated the transmission of teachers' and students' emotions by exploring reciprocal relationships between their emotional experiences across lessons.

Sample

Twenty homeroom teachers and their students in Grades 4-5 (N = 306) in Taiwan participated.

Method

Using an intra-individual design, we collected teachers' self-reported lesson-specific positive and negative emotions (4 items per composite; n = 249 lessons) and students' percept

SUBMITTER: Li PH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12427168 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature