Guest Lecture by Prof. Yesim Capa Aydin

This study examined the relationships between teachers’ emotion regulation strategies, teaching experience, and levels of burnout using structural equation modeling. The participants were 222 public middle school teachers selected through cluster sampling from a metropolitan city in Turkey. The results indicated that teaching experience was negatively associated with depersonalization and positively associated with personal accomplishment. Additionally, cognitive reappraisal positively predicted personal accomplishment and negatively predicted emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, while expressive suppression showed no significant associations with any burnout dimension. These findings highlight the potential of experience and cognitive reappraisal-based interventions to reduce teacher burnout. The talk will also address measurement issues in assessing emotion regulation strategies, particularly within educational contexts.

Yesim Capa Aydin, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Educational Sciences and Director of the Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching at Middle East Technical University, in Turkey. She earned her doctorate in quantitative research, measurement, and evaluation from The Ohio State University, USA. Throughout her career, she has contributed to at least 30 research projects and authored over 35 scientific articles, with a focus on assessment and feedback in higher education, performance evaluation, and assessment and modeling of psychological constructs such as self-efficacy, self-regulation, and emotions. Her work appears in journals including Educational Psychology, Educational and Psychological Measurement, Psychology in the Schools, and Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. Email: capa@metu.edu.tr

Where and when? 21 May 2025 * 1 p.m. * Leopoldstr. 13, Room 1302