ABSTRACT

The very nature of contemporary principals’ work depends on the effective management and regulation of emotions. This study uses data derived from 13 interviews to provide insight into how secondary school principals manage their emotions. Findings indicate that principals use several strategies to manage their emotions, including those associated with the situation selection, situation modification, attentional deployment, cognitive change and response modulation families of emotional regulation. Several implications for practice emerged from the findings of this study, including potential avenues for cultivating a sensitivity to the heavy emotional toll inherent in the contemporary principalship.

摘要

当代校长工作的本质取决于对情绪的有效管理和调节。本研究使用来自 13 次访谈的数据来深入了解中学校长如何管理自己的情绪。研究结果表明，校长使用多种策略来管理他们的情绪，包括与情境选择、情境修改、注意力部署、认知变化和情绪调节反应调节相关的策略。这项研究的发现对实践产生了一些影响，包括培养对当代校长固有的沉重情绪损失的敏感性的潜在途径。