This article presents an innovative narrative inquiry study carried out in a primary school in Aotearoa New Zealand with three young people who provide insights into how they perceive, construct, give meaning to, and make sense of their own emotions. The analysis from this primary research draws on Foucauldian scholarship to examine how the…

The objective of this study was to understand the psychometric functioning of the Child Anger Regulation Measure (CARM), its prediction of emotional engagement, and if the prediction of emotional engagement differs for girls and boys. The sample included 251 upper-elementary school students in the United States (10% Black, 62% White, 6% Latinx, 5%…

Gifted individuals are more advanced than their peers in cognitive, affective, psychomotor, or creative areas. This study aimed to find an answer to how gifted students' immediate emotional states change by means of music containing different emotions. The sample of the study consisted of 122 students studying at Adana BILSEM. Their moods were…

Teacher empathy is an essential feature in supporting social, emotional, and academic growth in students; however, there have been few studies of teacher empathy and job burnout. Teachers need to show empathy toward students without experiencing symptoms of job burnout to ensure students' academic, social, and emotional success. A mixed-methods…

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of vicarious trauma on K-3 educators' mental health, job satisfaction, and career projection. Additionally, this study looked at the need for specific professional development opportunities and strategies to help educators navigate the effects of vicarious trauma. To accomplish the objectives…

This study employed a mixed methodology to explore the relationship between trauma, burnout, and resilience of primary teachers working and living in Syria. Quantitative results suggested there were no significant differences between teachers' age, training, or education level and trauma and resilience. However, teacher training was found to be…

To explore issues of safety and security at school the research reported here investigated the way a sense of security was created in school, how security was linked to different locations and situations, and the influences that acted on pupils' sense of security. Pupils in year 1 in Sweden took photographs associated with insecurity and security,…

In the present study, we explore the perceptions of urban middle school students' representations of nature using participatory photography and their nature connectedness. Preadolescents (N = 108, 6th grade, age 11-13) were asked to take a photo of what nature is to them and write a short description of what is in the image. In a mixed method…

Because the COVID-19 pandemic has been implicated in increased mental health concerns for families of low income, we aimed to describe maternal perspectives about the pandemic's impact on their kindergartener's mental health during the 2020-2021 school year. We conducted 22 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with U.S. mothers with low income who…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the possibility that cognitive and affective variables form a reciprocal relationship when it comes to predicting future bullying perpetration. To this end, the bidirectional relationship between cognitive impulsivity and anger was evaluated in an effort to determine whether both cross-lagged pathways…

The inclusion of games in mathematics programmes is widely believed to foster the enjoyment of mathematics. The focus of this paper is on fluctuations in emotional climate during the playing of whole-class mathematics games. A multimethod approach drawing on the sociology of emotions was employed to explore changes in the classroom emotional…

The current study examined (1) cross-cultural variations in mothers' reports of how they would react to their children's positive and negative emotions as triggered by different interpersonal situations and (2) their relations to children's emotion regulation competence in Nepal, Korea, and Germany. Participants were 305 mothers whose children…

This study examined the role of teacher self-efficacy and student-teacher relationships (i.e., closeness and conflict) in predicting teacher emotional exhaustion over one school year. Regression analyses conducted among a sample of 161 third- to sixth-grade teachers indicated that, for those who reported high levels of self-efficacy, the sharing…

The present study examines perceptions of relationship quality as antecedents of best friendship dissolution. Participants included 230 students in Florida (United States; 54.3% girls; ages = 8-13; 39.6% European American, 27.0% Hispanic American, 21.7% African American, and 2.6% Asian American) and 496 students in Lithuania (49.0% girls; ages =…

Teaching remains a profession that is associated with certain health risks. Teachers complain of psychosomatic experiences such as exhaustion, fatigue, headache, and tension more than people in other professions. High levels of stress amongst teachers also pose a risk for students, as this is associated with poorer teaching quality and lower…