An Intervention Study Of The Cognitive Reappraisal Group Counseling For Secondary School Teachers’ Emotion Work Strategy

Objective:In order to investigate the effectiveness of intervention about cognitive reappraisal group counseling for secondary school teachers’ emotion work strategies,on the basis of the survey on the status of their emotion work,secondary school teachers in Tianjin as the research object in this study.Method:The study adopted Teachers’Emotion work Scale in Elementary and Middle School to investigate110teachers in a high school in Tianjin, recovering104valid questionnaires.The study selected10eligible subjects who were randomly selected5people in the experimental group,and5were in the control group.The experimental group received cognitive reappraisal group counseling(once a week,90minutes each time,a total of four),the control group did not receive any treatment.The experimental group and the control group accepted test before/after the intervention at the same time;the experimental group were asked to take subjective evaluation after the intervention.Results:(1)Teachers in the high school in Tianjin adopted all the3emotion work strategies. In this study,26.9%of respondents adopted surface acting,77.9%of respondents adopted active deep acting,88.5%of respondents adopted passive deep acting. There were significant gender differences of male and female teachers in passive deep acting except surface acting and active deep acting,moreover,female teachers’s average score higher than male teachers’ in passive deep acting.There were no differences between the head teachers and non-head teachers.(2) Compared the experimental group’s differences of pre-test and post-test with control group’s in three dimensions,the results showed that,there were significant differences in surface acting and active deep acting,no significant differences in passive deep acting.Conclusions:(1)The secondary school teachers in Tianjin who adopted surface act as emotion work strategies accounted for a certain proportion of the teachers surveyed,so intervention research about teachers’ emotional work strategies is necessary.(2)Cognitive reappraisal group counseling intervention can effectively make teachers choose active deep acting to adjust emotion, and reduce surface acting.