Does basic need satisfaction mediate the link between stress exposure and well-being? A diary study among beginning teachers

By Karen Aldrup, U. Klusmann, O. Lüdtke. 2017

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Abstract An imbalance between work-related stressors and resources, which we refer to as stress exposure, is often found to impair teachers' occupational well-being. However, the psychological mechanisms that explain this relationship are mostly unknown. We assumed that satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for competence, relatedness with students, and relatedness with colleagues acts as a mediator. To test this assumption, we conducted a two-week diary study with 152 beginning teachers. A multilevel within-subject mediation analysis showed that teachers felt less work enthusiasm and more emotional exhaustion on days when stress exposure was high. Whereas the needs for competence and relatedness with students explained the association with work enthusiasm, the need for competence mediated the relationship with emotional exhaustion. Additionally, the least experienced teachers felt more emotional exhaustion when the need for relatedness with students was not satisfied. These findings add to our understanding of the daily intra-individual processes affecting beginning teachers' occupational well-being.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Wijnand Adriaan Pieter Van Tilburg
2. Ewelina Smoktunowicz

In Social Psychology

1. K. Cantarero
2. Wijnand Adriaan Pieter Van Tilburg
3. Ewelina Smoktunowicz

Citations in the corpus

• Refining the teacher emotion model: evidence from a review of literature published between 1985 and 2019 (2020, unknown): “For example, the literature has shown that teacher emotions influence their students’ motivation (Aldrup et al., 2017), engagement (Sakiz, 2017) and behaviour (Nizielski, Hallum, Lopes, & Schutz, 2012).”
• Affirming Basic Psychological Needs Promotes Mental Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak (2020, background): “Furthermore, changes in competence and relatedness mediated the impact of emotional exhaustion and beneficial effects of work enthusiasm on daily stress (Aldrup et al., 2017).”