Interpersonal Emotion Regulation for Student Mental Well-being: A Daily Momentary Assessment

The mental well-being of secondary school students is declining, raising concerns with implications extending beyond school performance as low mental well-being negatively affect their future and society as a whole. A key factor in mental well-being is emotion regulation. Teacher-student interaction can stimulate emotion regulation; however research has focused on a) improving students’ ability to regulate their own emotions and b) outside real-life classrooms. Proposed research studies teacher-student interaction of emotion regulation in-the-moment, and how this relates to student mental well-being. By grounding this research in real-time classrooms this will uncover better support into fostering student mental well-being and learning.