In the graduation thesis I am concerned with preschool teacher’s feelings of anger and fear at work. In the theoretical part I introduce the definition of feelings and their division into basic and complex, and pleasant and unpleasant. I state and describe the ways in which we control our emotions. Since people also feel emotions towards ourselves, in the continuation of the theoretical work I state which emotions we can experience to ourselves and describe their development. Thereafter I focus on the emotions covered in the research - anger and fear. I describe these two emotions in greater detail, as well as the physical signs accompanying them. In concluding of the theoretical work with the help of a research, I clarify the meaning and importance of feelings in the profession of a preschool teacher or teacher. The empirical part presents the course of the research on the feeling of anger and fear of preschool teachers in the kindergarten and its results. The research involved 127 preschool teachers all over Slovenia. I obtained the results with a questionnaire about the characteristics of the teacher / preschool teacher dealing with the emotions of anger and fear when they appear in their work at school / kindergarten and how the managing of selected emotions is associated with some aspects of the teachers/educators acting (eg, satisfaction with profession). The questionnaire was compiled by S. Prosen and H. Smrtnik Vitulić. In the study, I was interested in how often in the last two weeks the preschool teachers felt angry and afraid, how often these emotions were also dealt with at home and what situations were caused by these two emotions. The results showed that in the last two weeks about half of the respondents were as angry as they felt fear seldom, that is 1-3 times. 45.6% of the preschool teachers respondents never dealed at home with the anger they feel at work. 61.9% of respondents responded the same about fearing. Those who responded positively to the question of dealing with anger and fear at home, however, are dealing with them rarely. The teachers mentioned several situations in which anger and fear in the workplace are felt. Most of these situations are related to children, some of them include parents, co-workers, management, and themselves (preschool teacher). Most of the situations in which the preschool teachers are angry are related to children. Mostly they get angry because instructions are not followed and because of inappropriate behaviors. Also most of the situations in which they feel fear is related to children. They are the most afraid that children would get injured, get an attack, a disease or a worse form of allergy.
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