ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2026
Examining Teacher Self-Efficacy and Work Engagement Among Chinese School-Level EFL Teachers: The Mediating Roles of Teaching Anxiety and Enjoyment.
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The affective turn in language education has prompted increasing scholarly attention to teachers' emotional experiences. While teacher self-efficacy has been recognized as a predictor of work engagement, the mediating roles of specific teaching emotions remain underexplored. Grounded in the "EMPATHICS" framework, this study investigated how foreign language teaching anxiety (FLTA) and enjoyment (FLTE) mediate the relationship between self-efficacy and work engagement among school-level EFL teachers. Data from 288 EFL teachers in primary and secondary schools across China were analyzed using structural equation modeling with bias-corrected bootstrap mediation analysis (5000 resamples). Results showed that self-efficacy was positively associated with work engagement (
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