Research On Primary School Teachers’ Social And Emotional Competencies Development And Its Relationship With Occupational Well-being

With the advent of information and intelligent society,the rhythm of people’s work and life is accelerating,the pressure is getting bigger and bigger,and interpersonal interaction lacks corresponding time and energy.At the same time,information technology brings convenience of information transmission,also brings the virtuality of interpersonal interaction and emotional expression.The virtual expression in social media has become an important carrier of emotional expression.The sincere emotional communication in real situations seems to be the scarcity of opportunities and scarcity.Social and emotional competencies is the biggest difference between human beings and animals,as well as between humans and artificial intelligence.Therefore,the international education community pays more and more attention to the cultivation and research of students’ social and emotional competencies.As an important designer and implementer of students’ social and emotional competencies training,teachers themselves need to develop good social and emotional competencies.More importantly,teachers’ social and emotional competencies are also an important educational resource.The important means for teachers to influence and motivate students is also an important source for teachers to form a good attitude and gain occupational well-being.There have been many studies on the social and emotional competencies development of students at home and abroad,but there have been few studies on the development of teachers’ social and emotional competencies,especially the research on the development of social and emotional competencies of primary and secondary school teachers in China’s social and cultural context.Therefore,this study takes primary school teachers in China as the research object,examines the development of social and emotional competencies,and explores whether it is related to teachers’ occupational well-being and how it relates.This study takes the relevant research of Collaborative for Academic,Social and Emotional Learning as the main theoretical basis,and divides teachers’ social and emotional competencies into four dimensions: self-awareness,self-management,social awareness and relationship skills.With positive psychology as the main theoretical basis,the occupational well-being is divided into four dimensions: interpersonal relationship,work emotion,physical health and satisfaction.The questionnaire survey was conducted to examine 197 primary school teachers in W City,L Province,to investigate the development of social and emotional competencies and occupational well-being,to explore the influencing factors of development and the relationship between the two.The study found:1.Overall,the current social and emotional competencies of primary school teachers are at a high level development.Among them,self-awareness and social awareness ability is higher than self-management and relationship skills.2.There is no significant difference in gender between social and emotional competencies of primary school teachers,teachers aged 41-50 are significantly higher in relationship skills than teachers of other ages,the social and emotional competencies of married teachers is significantly higher than that of unmarried teachers.3.Primary school teachers have a upper-middle level of occupational well-being and the lowest level of physical health in all dimensions.Male teachers’ work emotions are significantly lower than female teachers,31-40 year old teachers are significantly less healthy than teachers of other ages.4.There is a significant positive correlation between social and emotional competencies and occupational well-being of primary school teachers.Self-management is most closely related to occupational well-being.From the perspective of occupational well-being,self-magement and social awareness have the most significant impact on interpersonal relationship;self-management has the most significant impact on work emotion;social awareness has the most significant impact on physical health;relationship skills has the most impact on significant.