Adaptation and validation of the teacher emotional labour strategy scale in China

Abstract

The present study reports the adaptation and validation of the Teacher Emotional Labour Strategy Scale (TELSS) as tested on samples of 633 Beijing teachers and 648 Chongqing teachers in Chinese mainland. Results show that the 13-item TELSS adapted for this study had good internal consistency on three subscales which measure three types of teacher emotional labour strategy, namely, surface acting, deep acting and expression of naturally felt emotions. Confirmatory factor analysis using different data-sets provided support for the construct validity of this TELSS. In addition, the convergent, discriminant and concurrent validity of this newly-adapted TELSS were examined in the present study.

Keywords:

• teacher emotion
• emotional labour
• scale adaptation and validation
• Chinese mainland

Acknowledgements

The research project in this paper was supported by the Direct Grant for Research Fund (Project Code: 2080058) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The author thanks the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on the previous version of this paper.