Presenting the model of antecedents affecting moral-emotional acting in education

AbstractThe aim of the current research is to identify and rank the antecedents affecting moral-emotional acting in education. This research was applicable in terms of its purpose, and was carried out with a quantitative approach with an exploratory design. The research method was descriptive-survey. The statistical population in the quantitative section included education managers of Golestan province; by stratified random sampling method, as many as 270 people. The research data collection tool included a researcher-made questionnaire, and data analysis was done through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis in SPSS21 and PLS software. The results showed that the antecedents affecting moral-emotional acting have 2 dimensions: "individual antecedents and organizational antecedents". Individual antecedents have 3 components: "knowledge and information, personality traits, and motivation", and organizational antecedents have 4 components: "organizational culture, ethical atmosphere of the organization, organizational structure, and leadership and management". Considering the factors affecting moral-emotional acting, we can observe the growth of positive organizational behaviors and the institutionalization of ethics in the organization. According to the obtained model, there is a relationship between the exogenous variables of antecedents affecting emotional acting and the endogenous variable of emotional acting, based on the factorial path coefficients of 0.680; also according to the t-value, the effect of antecedents affecting emotional acting has become significant; therefore, there is a positive and significant relationship between the antecedent variables affecting emotional acting and emotional acting. Thus, it can be concluded that; the effect of effective antecedents on emotional acting is positive and meaningful.Extended abstractIntroductionThe present age is the age of organizations, and the custodians of these organizations are human beings; on the other hand, emotional acting is inevitable in work environments and people in jobs whose careers depend on high social interactions are forced to hide their real feelings in some cases, and reveal the expected feelings in the profession (Lu & Guy, 2018). Research has also shown that all kinds of emotional acting strategies can increase the psychological stress of employees and this stress can lead to negative results such as job dissatisfaction and burnout. Many researchers have confirmed the rol