Measuring Teachers' enjoyment, anger, and anxiety: The Teacher Emotions Scales (TES)

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue , 2016, Pages 148-163

  Frenzel, Anne C ^a   Pekrun, Reinhard ^a   Goetz, Thomas ^b,c   Daniels, Lia M ^d   Durksen, Tracy L ^e   Becker Kurz, Betty ^a   Klassen, Robert M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c Thurgau University of Teacher Education   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross language measurement invariance analysis; Instrument validation; Teacher anger; Teacher anxiety; Teacher enjoyment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971451934     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.05.003     Document Type: Article

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