TEACHERS' EMOTIONS AND SELF-EFFICACY: A QUANTITATIVE STUDYIN THE BRAZILIAN CONTEXT

The present study aimed to examine the effect of the emotions joy, love, pride, anger, exhaustion, hopelessness, on the six dimensions of self-efficacy related to different teaching tasks (adaptation of teaching to the individual needs of students, teaching, motivation of students, maintenance of student discipline, cooperation with colleagues and students' parents, and ways of dealing with changes). A total of 1263 primary and secondary school teachers participated in the study. The results show that the discrete emotions experienced by the teacher have distinct effects on the various dimensions of teacher self-efficacy. The implications of the study for the school are discussed, in particular the role of managers in the creation of conditions that favor teacher training directed to specific dimensions of the teaching activity, and in the construction of relationships with teachers that favor the experience of emotions with positive valence.