The Relationship Among Distributed Leadership, Teachers' Self-Efficacy, and Teachers' Job Satisfaction

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Abstract

Using TALIS (Teaching and Learning International Survey) 2013 data collected from Korean middle school teachers, this paper explores the relationship among distributed leadership, teachers’ self-efficacy, and teachers’ job satisfaction. The results from using the structural equation modeling showed that distributed leadership had a positive effect on teachers’ job satisfaction. Additionally, distributed leadership had a positive effect on teachers’ self-efficacy. Further, teachers’ self-efficacy had a positive effect on teachers’ job satisfaction. Finally, teachers’ self-efficacy conducted a mediating variable between distributed leadership and teachers’ job satisfaction. The results from the study suggest that policy for enhancing teachers’ self-efficacy is needed as well as active implementation of distributed leadership in school as a way to increase teachers’ job satisfaction.

Authors

• Ho Soo Kang, Gyeonggi Institute of Education

• Namwook Koo, Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation

• Hannah Kim, Korean Educational Development Institute