Dr. Mathias Dehne
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Vita
Dr. Mathias Dehne is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Research on Teaching and Learning. He studied Educational Science, German as a Foreign and Second Language (B.A., 2017) and Education – Culture – Anthropology (M.A., 2019) and worked as a PhD student at the chair after completing his master’s degree.
In January 2025, he earned his PhD with a dissertation on the topic “On the Role of Teacher Motivation and Interpersonal Relationships for Becoming and Remaining a Teacher.”
As part of the research for his dissertation, Mathias Dehne spent two months on a research stay at the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Marjolein Zee, Debora Roorda, and Helma Koomen.
In his research, he focuses in particular on interpersonal relationships, motivation, emotions and well-being of (prospective) teachers. In this regard, his main research objective is currently on affective, dyadic principal–teacher relationships (e.g., from a cross-cultural perspective).
Mathias Dehne is a member of international research associations (EARLI, SIG 8 – Motivation and Emotion, SIG 11 – Teaching and Teacher Education) and plays an active role in shaping them. For example, he was a member of the International Organizing Committee of the JURE 2022 Conference in Porto (Portugal).
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Research Interests
- Interpersonal relationships, motivation, emotions, and well-being of (prospective) teachers·
- Affective, dyadic principal–teacher relationships
- Quantitative Psychology: structural equation models in cross-sectional and longitudinal study designs
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