Profiles of Chinese teachers' emotional labor: Evolution and relations with job demands, resources, and burnout

Based on the person-centered approach, we investigated the evolution of teachers' emotional labor profiles and examined how occupational stress and organizational support predicted changes in profile membership, and the difference in burnout among different profiles. Data were collected from 829 Chinese primary and secondary teachers in a two-wave longitudinal test over six months. Latent profile analysis identified four emotional labor profiles, while latent transition analysis found that the profiles exhibited a latent transition probability. Occupational stress and organizational support can predict the negative and positive latent transition of profiles, and four profiles were related to different levels of teacher burnout.