Beyond Confidence: The Combined Impact of Self-Efficacy and Emotions on Asian Reading Teachers' Job Satisfaction

• In Event: Poster Session 2
  In Poster Session: Research in Reading and Literacy

Abstract

Reading is a critical school subject, and success in reading development is closely related to students’ success in other school subjects. Given the importance of reading teachers’ job satisfaction to student achievement, this study examined the combined impact of self-efficacy and negative emotions on Asian reading teachers’ job satisfaction. 157 Asian reading teachers from secondary schools in China, Korea, and Japan completed three sets of surveys to measure their job satisfaction, self-efficacy, and negative emotions (anger and anxiety). Findings showed that self-efficacy contributed to the prediction of job satisfaction with positive relationship, while anger and anxiety contributed negatively. Also, their job satisfaction was better predicted when both self-efficacy and negative emotions were used as predictors.

Authors

• Ji Yeon Hong, University of Oklahoma

• Min-Young Kim, The Ohio State University

• Jiening Ruan

• Yeo-Tak Yoon