Emotional Regulation as a Predictor of Social Responsibility: Insights from Prospective Teachers

Abstract In today's modern era, students are struggling to regulate their emotions and are also careless toward others. Every teacher should help students to overcome this problem. This study was conducted to examine how emotional regulation and social responsibility are among prospective teachers entering the teaching profession. For this, a cross-sectional survey method was followed. In this study, 324 prospective teachers from Coimbatore district were selected using cluster sampling. Two standardised tools were used for this study. At the end of this study, it was found that emotional regulation and social responsibility are low among prospective teachers in the Coimbatore district. Therefore, it is necessary for the education stakeholders to pay attention to this issue and work to improve it. Keywords: Emotions, Emotional regulation, Social responsibility, Prospective teachers, Teacher education