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Development of the Teacher Workplace Emotional Health Scale.
Yin-Che Chen1, Hui-Chuang Chu1
1Department of Educational Psychology and Counselin, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan.
The Journal of School Health
|September 25, 2025
Summary
A new scale effectively measures teacher well-being, integrating job burnout and social media stress. This tool aids in developing targeted interventions to improve emotional health and job satisfaction for educators.
Area of Science:
- Educational Psychology
- Occupational Health
- Psychometrics
Background:
- Teacher well-being in Taiwan is compromised by heavy workloads, administrative tasks, digital communication, and societal pressures.
- Existing assessment tools fail to incorporate emerging stressors like social media pressure, focusing instead on isolated constructs.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and validate a multidimensional scale for assessing teacher workplace emotional health.
- To integrate key factors including emotional labor, emotional intelligence, job burnout, and social media pressure.
Main Methods:
- A six-stage scale development framework was employed.
- Methods included literature review, expert validation, pretesting, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA).
- Data were collected from teachers across various regions and school levels.
Main Results:
- The final 25-item Teacher Workplace Emotional Health Scale demonstrated strong reliability (α=0.859) and validity.
- A four-factor model was superior to a unidimensional model.
- Job burnout accounted for the most variance, with social media stress significantly impacting emotional health. Emotional labor demands were notably high.
Conclusions:
- The validated scale effectively captures traditional and novel emotional challenges faced by teachers.
- It provides a practical instrument for monitoring teacher emotional health and guiding interventions.
- The scale supports the development of culturally relevant strategies to enhance teacher well-being and maintain educational quality.
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