Previous attempts to explain teachers’ educational effectiveness have mostly focused on personal traits, organizational commitment, pedagogical content knowledge or the passion for education, and so on. We want to highlight that social skills—competencies that enable teachers to interact effectively with others—might contribute to the teachers’ well-being with the help of emotional regulation. Using the hypothesis that building positive relationships and relating to others emotionally may lead to positive outcomes in the educational process, the aim of this study was to explore the effect of teachers’ emotional literacy skills and emotional labor behaviors on their social capital. A structural equation model was developed to describe the cause–effect relationship between the variables. The population investigated in the study consisted of high school teachers in the central districts of Eskişehir, Turkey, in the 2017–2018 academic year and the sample included 399 teachers taken from seven different school types using the stratified sampling method. Data analysis was performed using correlation and descriptive analysis, the structural validity of the scales was determined by exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and the validity of the structural equation model was tested by running a path analysis—the model was acceptable. The results of the analyses indicate that there are positive effects of emotional literacy on emotional labor and emotional labor on social capital. In addition, emotional labor had a full mediating effect in the relationship between emotional literacy and social capital. Possible explanations of the results, limitations, and suggestions for the study are discussed.

先前解释教师教育效果的尝试主要集中在个人特质，组织承诺，教学内容知识或对教育的热情等方面。我们要强调的是，社交技能（使教师能够与他人有效互动的能力）可能会在情绪调节的帮助下为教师的幸福做出贡献。建立关于建立积极关系并在情感上与他人建立联系可能会在教育过程中产生积极结果的假设，本研究的目的是探讨教师的情感素养技能和情感劳动行为对其社会资本的影响。开发了结构方程模型来描述变量之间的因果关系。该研究中调查的人口包括土耳其埃斯基谢希尔中心地区在2017-2018学年的高中教师，样本包括采用分层抽样方法从七种不同学校类型中选出的399名教师。使用相关性和描述性分析进行数据分析，通过探索性和确认性因素分析确定量表的结构有效性，并通过运行路径分析测试结构方程模型的有效性，该模型是可以接受的。分析结果表明，情感素养对情感劳动和情感劳动对社会资本有积极影响。此外，情感劳动在情感素养与社会资本之间的关系中具有完全的中介作用。