ERIC Number: EJ892643
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Aug
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
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Effects on Teachers' Self-Efficacy and Job Satisfaction: Teacher Gender, Years of Experience, and Job Stress
Klassen, Robert M.; Chiu, Ming Ming
Journal of Educational Psychology, v102 n3 p741-756 Aug 2010
The authors of this study sought to examine the relationships among teachers' years of experience, teacher characteristics (gender and teaching level), three domains of self-efficacy (instructional strategies, classroom management, and student engagement), two types of job stress (workload and classroom stress), and job satisfaction with a sample of 1,430 practicing teachers using factor analysis, item response modeling, systems of equations, and a structural equation model. Teachers' years of experience showed nonlinear relationships with all three self-efficacy factors, increasing from early career to mid-career and then falling afterwards. Female teachers had greater workload stress, greater classroom stress from student behaviors, and lower classroom management self-efficacy. Teachers with greater workload stress had greater classroom management self-efficacy, whereas teachers with greater classroom stress had lower self-efficacy and lower job satisfaction. Those teaching young children (in elementary grades and kindergarten) had higher levels of self-efficacy for classroom management and student engagement. Lastly, teachers with greater classroom management self-efficacy or greater instructional strategies self-efficacy had greater job satisfaction. (Contains 11 tables and 3 figures.)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Student Behavior, Teacher Characteristics, Job Satisfaction, Self Efficacy, Factor Analysis, Gender Differences, Teaching Experience, Teaching Conditions, Stress Variables, Teaching Methods, Student Participation, Correlation, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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