Effects of Self-Efficacy and Attributions on Teachers’ Well-Being: A Mediational Analysis

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Abstract

The present study evaluated the effects of both teachers' self-efficacy and the way they attribute their occupational stress on burnout, job satisfaction, and quitting intentions based on the assumption that teachers’ attributions should mediate the relationship between self-efficacy and adjustment outcomes. Practicing teachers (N = 536) were recruited from Ontario and Quebec in Canada to complete the web-based questionnaire. Our results showed that teachers’ self-efficacy and attributions for stress both predicted the adjustment outcomes, and that their effects did not overlap (attributions do not mediate). Teachers’ self-efficacy regarding student engagement and the attribution variable reflecting a belief in personal control over occupational stress were found to be the most important predictors of teachers’ burnout, job satisfaction, and quitting intentions.

Authors

• Hui Wang, McGill University

• Sonia Rahimi, McGill University

• Nathan C. Hall, McGill University

• Melanie M. Keller, University of Konstanz