Faculty Enjoyment, Anxiety, and Boredom for Teaching and Research: Instrument Development and Testing Predictors of Success

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-3-2019

Publication Title

Studies in Higher Education

Volume

44

Abstract

This study examined the role of emotions in predicting university faculty teaching and research performance while addressing the methodological limitations of past research. Recruited using social media, 312 early-career faculty completed an online survey containing six newly adapted multi-item emotion scales assessing enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom related to both teaching and research. Analyses supported the reliability as well as convergent and divergent validity of the scales. Results of structural equation modeling revealed that enjoyment positively predicted perceived success whereas anxiety and boredom negatively predicted success in both teaching and research, even after accounting for social-environmental predictors. The emotions also significantly related to faculty research publication and citation counts. In terms of implications for faculty development, the findings suggest that fostering value and control may be a mechanism for improving faculty emotions and performance in teaching and research. The discussion includes future theoretical and methodological contributions.

Issue

10

First Page

1712

Last Page

1722

DOI

10.1080/03075079.2019.1665308

ISSN

03075079

Rights

This is an original manuscript / preprint of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Studies in Higher Education on 3 October 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03075079.2019.1665308.

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