Teacher Well-Being: Exploring Its Components and a Practice-Oriented Scale
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This study examined the psychometric properties of the Teacher Well-Being Scale, which assesses three factors of teachers’ work-related well-being: workload, organizational, and student interaction well-being. With a sample of Canadian teachers, results confirmed the reliability, approximate normality, and factor structure of the scale; provided support for a higher order factor of teacher well-being; showed the instrument functioned similarly across different sociodemographic subgroups; and demonstrated the well-being factors were related as expected with external constructs of teacher stress, job satisfaction, and general well-being. Combined, these analyses provide support for the use of the instrument as an assessment of teacher well-being and evidence of the importance of teacher well-being for other teacher outcomes. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
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Perceived organizational support reduces burnout and enhances job satisfaction, thereby supporting teachers' wellbeing.
“Studies underline the critical role of perceived support in supporting teachers’ wellbeing by reducing burnout and enhancing job satisfaction (Eisenberger et al., 2001; Collie et al., 2015).”
From Exploring the impact of workload, organizational support, and work engagement on teachers' psychological wellbeing: a structural equation modeling approach (2024) · cites this paper as Collie et al., 2015
Teacher workload has a profound impact on their overall wellbeing.
“Numerous studies have consistently highlighted the profound impact of teacher workload on their overall wellbeing (Collie et al., 2015; Granziera et al., 2021; Jerrim and Sims, 2021; Magalong and Torreon, 2021).”
From Exploring the impact of workload, organizational support, and work engagement on teachers' psychological wellbeing: a structural equation modeling approach (2024) · cites this paper as Collie et al., 2015
Collie et al. (2015) found that teaching experience and age correlated with first-order organizational teacher well-being, but they found no significant correlations with higher order teacher well-being.
“Collie et al. (2015) found that teaching experience and age correlated with first-order organizational TWB, but they found no significant correlations with higher order TWB.”
From Teacher well-being: A systematic review of the research literature from the year 2000–2019 (2021) · cites this paper as Collie et al., 2015
Subjective professional competence is positively related to teacher well-being, whereas objective teaching experience is of limited exploratory power.
“subjective professional competence is positively related to TWB (Aldrup et al., 2017;Collie et al., 2015;Wong & Zhang, 2014;Yıldırım, 2014), whereas objective teaching experience is of limited exploratory power.”
From Teacher well-being: A systematic review of the research literature from the year 2000–2019 (2021) · cites this paper as Collie et al., 2015
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- Authors
- Collie, R. J., Shapka, J. D., Perry, N. E., & Martin, A. J.
- Affiliations
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Collie, Rebecca J.
- Venue
- Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2015-05-28
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 744-756
- ISSN
- 0734-2829 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-5144
- OpenAlex
- W2335961044
- Cited by
- 225
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 11.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Occupational Health and Burnout
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Keywords
- teacher well-being, psychometric properties, workload, organizational well-being, teacher stress, job satisfaction, general well-being, scale validation, sociodemographic differences
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