An exploration of the relationships between elementary school teachers’ humor styles and their emotional labor

Teaching requires emotional labor. Humor is a promising but under-explored means of coping with such labor. A questionnaire was administered to 302 primary teachers to assess three kinds of emotional labor (surface, deep, and genuine acting) and four humor styles: two adaptive (affiliative and self-enhancing) and two maladaptive (aggressive and self-defeating). Affiliative and self-enhancing humor were positively correlated with emotional labor, whereas aggressive and self-defeating humor were negatively correlated with such labor. These results can help raise awareness of teaching’s emotional demands, and encourage teacher-training and professional-development programs to showcase appropriate ways, including humor, of coping with workplace emotions.     

Social support and cultural distance: Sojourners’ experience in China

Previous research has pinpointed that social support from host, co-national, and other international friends plays a pivotal role in successful adaptation to a new culture, yet research on this topic pertaining to China is inadequate. As such, using a cross-sectional sample of sojourners (N = 199) in major Chinese cities, the current study examines the relationship between sojourners’ self-reports of social support from the three sources and two psychological adaptation variables (i.e., anxiety and well-being) as well as the moderating effect of objective cultural distance. Regression analysis indicates that perceptions of host and international support are significant negative predictors of anxiety and positive predictors of psychological well-being. In addition, cultural distance moderated these predictive associations: host support and international support had a stronger negative association with anxiety and host support had a stronger positive association with well-being for participants whose cultural distance to China was lower compared to those whose cultural distance was higher. This study enhances our understanding of the dynamic interplay between social support and cultural distance in cross-cultural adaptation research within a Chinese cultural context.     

科学地理解心理健康与心理健康教育

心理健康是个人的主观体验,客观条件只作为影响体验的潜在因素。心理健康包括积极的情绪情感,也包括个人生活的方方面面;它不仅是消极情绪情感的减少,也是积极情绪情感的增多。自尊是心理健康的核心。从表现形式来看,心理健康不仅表现为没有心理疾病,更表现为一种积极向上发展的心理状态。     

走向快乐：当代经济学与心理学对“快乐”主题的重新发现

当今社会迅猛的财富增长并未给人们带来幸福感的相应增加,这导致经济学和心理学都开始反思和探讨财富与幸福的关系。对两门学科历史的回顾表明,现代经济学和心理学都背离了学科建立伊始时追求幸福快乐的初衷,而积极心理学和行为经济学的兴起则标志着这两门学科向“快乐”方向的回归。目前,经济学与心理学在对幸福的理解及其影响因素的探讨和对快乐计量指标的开发上都体现出合作和互补,且此趋势正在进一步增强。     

康德之“德福一致”观点探析

康德认为斯多亚派和伊壁鸠鲁派在道德和幸福关系问题上的争论陷入了二律悖反,于是从"至善"入手,试图将道德与幸福在超验世界统一起来,以此来论证德行为和幸福关系的真理性.康德之"德福一致"观点认为,在实践领域,道德和幸福是统一的,是至善--完满的善.康德所言之至善在人的现实生活中并非渺不可及,对于人类而言是有其现实可能性的.     

中国人自谦的动机及其与主观幸福感的关系

许多研究发现,不同于西方人直接的自我提升,东亚人更倾向于自谦,而且自谦行为的动机颇为复杂,这可能会使东方人的自我实现和主观幸福感的制约因素与西方人有所不同.对252名大学生和123名职业群体的研究表明,中国人自谦的动机包含"规范性""防御性"和"真诚性"3个维度.年龄对"规范性"和"防御性"有较高的预测性,能解释两者变异的29.5%和27.2%."真诚性"与"失望感"呈显著的负相关;"规范性"和"防御性"与"幸运感""自信感"呈显著的负相关.     

西方对终身学习与个体幸福感关系的研究及其启示

如何提高个体幸福感已越来越引起西方政界和学术界的重视。以英国为首的一些西方国家近年来对终身学习和个体幸福感的关系进行了一系列的研究,以量化的形式证明了终身学习对个体幸福感的直接影响和间接影响。     

地震灾区高中生外向性对主观幸福感的影响：社会期望的调节作用

目的：考察地震灾区高中生外向性、社会期望和主观幸福感之间的关系。方法：采用大五人格简版量表的外向性分量表、儿童社会期望量表和主观幸福感指数量表对地震灾区的133名中学生进行调查。结果：相关分析结果显示,震后灾区高中生的外向性、社会期望和主观幸福感之间存在显著正相关,外向性和社会期望之间存在微弱正相关;层次回归分析显示,社会期望可以调节外向性和主观幸福感之间的关系。结论：震后灾区高中生的外向性、社会期望对其主观幸福感都存在一定的正向预测作用,且社会期望在外向性和主观幸福感之间还存在调节作用。     

Reconstructing Dewey: Habit,Embodiment and Health and Well-Being

This critical paper utilises selective education writings by John Dewey as the basis for considering how a strengths-based and personalised view of habit and embodiment could effectively thrive as part of an enhanced health and well-being focus in schools. The paper centres on Dewey’s belief that habits when allied to continuity and interaction could help children to integrate experiences in ways which enable them to constructively evaluate the contribution of health and well-being to their education. The paper concludes by reviewing how the connections between habit, embodiment and health and well-being could be pedagogically strengthened.     

Beyond the paycheck: Chinese rural teacher well-being and the impact of professional learning and local community engagement

This paper proposes a theoretical framework to understand the structure and determinants for rural teacher well-being (TWB), with a focus on key factors that can mediate low pay and poor work conditions, specifically teachers’ professional learning (PL) and community engagement (CE). This framework was tested using structural equation model in a sample of 3155 rural teachers in China. The quantitative results confirmed a second-order factor structure for TWB, evidencing the significant impact of pay satisfaction and the mediating effects of PL and CE of rural teachers. Implications encourage policymakers to strengthen rural TWB by enhancing PL and community connections, while continuing to seek ways to improve pay and work conditions.