Topic Specificity and Antecedents for Preservice Biology Teachers’ Anticipated Enjoyment for Teaching About Socioscientific Issues: Investigating Universal Values and Psychological Distance

摘要: Enjoyment for teaching represents one of the most frequently reported emotions and positively affects student outcomes. Therefore, researchers teacher educators need to understand its nature underlying appraisal processes prepare motivated teachers as part initial education. Using cross-sectional questionnaire data from 189 German biology preservice (73.5% female, meanage = 23.45 years, SDage 3.71 years), we empirically tested topic-specific structure antecedents participants' anticipated enjoyment teaching. We adapted established Teacher Emotion Scale measure teachers' trait-based by reframing items with environmental socioscientific issues return wild wolves climate change health issue preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed best fit a model. also found different correlations about issues, but no significant differences in means. Concerning further antecedents, environmentally oriented basic value universalism predicted wolves, socially universal benevolence Both values inconsistently change. While this is line complex issue, psychological distance was predictor every topic. these effects remained stable when controlling demographic variables, male participants showed higher change, female Further studies are needed investigate if results can be transferred in-service or other emotions. Furthermore, future could examine on factors relevant such reactions behavior, which have been described central causation prior (i.e., "reciprocal model emotions"). The present study stimulates new adds important knowledge understanding topic specificity teaching, education professional development.