Development and Validation of Teachers’ Emotional Literacy Scale
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https://doi.org/10.62997/psi.2025b-42077Keywords:
Emotional Literacy, Skills, Emotions, Empathy, Interactivity, ResilienceAbstract
Teachers’ emotional literacy involves knowing emotions, acknowledgment of emotions, understanding emotions, expression of emotions, and suitable reflection on emotions. The value of emotional literacy has recently become popularized in educational institutions. Emotional literacy fosters empathy, resilience, social bonding, conflict resolution, and classroom management, empowering teachers to create supportive environments and enabling learners to thrive academically and emotionally. Now this term has become a global trend, more researchers are taking interest in this field of research especially when they came to know that emotional competencies are learnable, improvable, and measurable. For successful implementation of emotional literacy programs in educational institutions. The assessment of teachers’ emotional literacy is crucial in Pakistan, where training focuses only on content expertise and pedagogical skills. The study aimed to develop a scale to assess emotional literacy among primary school teachers in Punjab’s government institutions. Multistage random sampling technique was used. A sample of three hundred primary teachers was selected from the hundred primary schools from district Sargodha and Hafiz Abad. The construct validity of the scale was established through EFA, and five factors were revealed. The CFA was applied to confirm the results of the EFA. The value of the Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient was.65 on the scale. The research findings revealed that the Teachers’ Emotional Literacy Scale is a valid and reliable tool to measure emotional literacy. The study also confirmed that there are five sub constructs (knowing emotions, showing empathy, managing emotions, emotional resilience, and emotional interactivity) of emotional literacy.
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