Improving Teacher Job Satisfaction: The Roles of Social Capital, Teacher Efficacy, and Support

AbstractTeachers’ performances also depend on whether and how they are satisfied with their job. Therefore, Teacher Job Satisfaction must be considered as the driver of teachers’ accomplishments. To plan future policies and improve the overall teaching process, it is crucial to understand which factors mostly contribute to Teacher Job Satisfaction. A Common Assessment Framework and Education questionnaire was administered to 163 Italian public secondary school teachers to collect data, and a second-order factor analysis was used to detect which factors impact on Teacher Job Satisfaction, and to what extent. This model-based approach guarantees to detect factors which respect important properties: unidimensionality and reliability. All the coefficients are estimated according to the maximum likelihood estimation method in order to make inference on the parameters and on the validity of the model. Moreover, a new multi-group test for higher-order factor analysis was proposed and implemented. Finally, we analyzed in detail whether the factors impacting Teacher Job Satisfaction are characterized by gender.

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Correction to: A multi-group higher-order factor analysis for studying the gender-effect in Teacher Job Satisfaction

METRON ◽

10.1007/s40300-021-00209-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Carlo Cavicchia ◽

Pasquale Sarnacchiaro

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Factor Analysis ◽

Higher Order ◽

Teacher Job Satisfaction ◽

Gender Effect ◽

Order Factor

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Does workplace social capital predict care quality through job satisfaction and stress at the clinic? A prospective study

BMC Public Health ◽

10.1186/s12889-021-11320-8 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Hanne Berthelsen ◽

Mikaela Owen ◽

Hugo Westerlund

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Social Capital ◽

Care Quality ◽

Indirect Pathway ◽

Quality Healthcare ◽

Aggregated Data ◽

Dental Fillings ◽

Patient Demographics ◽

A Prospective Study ◽

Workplace Social Capital

Abstract Background Welfare societies like Sweden face challenges in balancing the budget while meeting the demand for good quality healthcare. The aim of this study was to analyse whether care quality, operationalized as survival of dental fillings, is predicted by workplace social capital and if this effect is direct or indirect (through stress and/or job satisfaction among staff at the clinic), controlling for patient demographics. Methods The prospective design includes A) work environment data from surveys of 75 general public dental clinics (aggregated data based on 872 individual ratings), and B) register-based survival of 9381dental fillings performed during a 3-month period around the time of the survey, and C) patient demographics (age, gender, income level and birth place). Using a multi-level discrete-time proportional hazard model, we tested whether clinic-level social capital, stress, and job satisfaction could predict tooth-level filling failure, controlling for patient demographics. One direct and two indirect pathways, moderated by filling tooth, location, and filling type, were tested. Results High workplace social capital reduced the risk of early failure of fillings in molar teeth, mediated by group-perceived job satisfaction (indirect path: OR = 0.93, p < .05, direct path from job satisfaction: OR = 0.89, p < .05). Contrary to expectations, we found no support for a direct effect from social capital on care quality or for the indirect pathway via stress at the clinic level. Conclusions Workplace social capital boosted the quality of dental fillings through increased levels of job satisfaction. In addition, staff at clinics with higher social capital reported less stress and higher levels of job satisfaction. These results indicate that promotion of social capital may improve both occupational health and care quality.

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University Graduates’ Employability, Employment Status, and Job Quality

Journal of Career Development ◽

10.1177/0894845316671607 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 132-149 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Vicente González-Romá ◽

Juan Pablo Gamboa ◽

José M. Peiró

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Social Capital ◽

Employment Status ◽

Job Quality ◽

Hierarchical Level ◽

University Graduates ◽

Career Identity ◽

Human And Social Capital ◽

The University

We investigated whether a set of indicators of the employability dimensions proposed by Fugate, Kinicki, and Asforth (i.e., career identity, personal adaptability, and human and social capital) are related to university graduates’ employment status and five indicators of the quality of their jobs (pay, hierarchical level, vertical and horizontal match, and job satisfaction). We analyzed a representative sample of university graduates ( N = 7,881) from the population of graduates who obtained their degree from the University of Valencia in the period 2006–2010. The results showed that indicators of human and social capital were related to employment status, whereas indicators of human and social capital and career identity were related to distinct job quality indicators. These results support the validity of the conceptual model proposed by Fugate et al. to investigate employability in samples of university graduates.

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