Teachers' Heart Rate Variability and Behavioral Reactions in Aggressive Interactions: Teachers Can Downregulate Their Physiological Arousal, and Progesterone Favors Social Integrative Teacher Responses

• Main Authors: Alexander Wettstein (Author), Sonja Krähling (Author), Gabriel Jenni (Author), Ida Schneider (Author), Fabienne Kühne (Author), Martin grosse Holtforth (Author), Roberto La Marca (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2024-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Aggressive student behavior is considered one of the main risk factors for teacher stress. The present study investigated teachers' physiological and behavioral reactions when facing aggressive student behavior and examined which resources favor adaptive teacher reactions. The sample included 4...