The Roles of Life Satisfaction, Teaching Efficacy, and Self-esteem in Predicting Teachers' Job Satisfaction

“Life satisfaction, considered as a variable to affect teachers’ job satisfaction, includes evaluations about individuals’ lives [30].”

“A review of R2 values, on the other hand, showed that Satisfaction with Life Scale explained 31% of Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale; this was increased by 34% upon analyzing Teacher Efficacy Scale and by 35% upon including Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale in the analysis.”

“Life satisfaction was also reported to include cognitive perceptions about individuals’ subjective well-being [29].”

“The concept of efficacy as a predicting variable in the current research is explained within Bandura’s theory [6] of social learning.”

“Teacher self-efficacy is defined as teacher’s perception of motivating students to learn [68].”

“on positive or negative feedback associated with a job [64].”

“Coopersmith [23], on the other hand, defined self-esteem as individual’s consideration of his/her own self as competent and important as well as perceiving oneself as successful and valuable.”

“A study on relationships and associations is often called an associational research [91].”

“[37] to define the competencies of teaching profession and”

“Teacher efficacy was found to be effective on job satisfaction in similar studies [58, 19, 50].”

“Studies conducted showed that individuals with high scores of self-esteem had self-control [63], higher scores of psychological soundness [46], and higher-level variables such as life satisfaction and happiness levels [7] and they were more optimistic [54].”

“In another study to support the findings of the current research, Caprara, Barbaranelli, Steca, and Malone [20] found that teacher self-efficacy beliefs influenced job satisfaction and students’ academic achievement.”

“Teacher Efficacy Scale (TES) Teacher Efficacy Scale, developed by Gibson and Dembo [37] to define the competencies of teaching profession and later reviewed by Guskey and Passaro [38], was used in the current research.”

“Teacher efficacy was found to be effective on job satisfaction in similar studies [58, 19, 50].”

“In addition, studies conducted showed that employees with high-level self-esteem had high-level job satisfaction [43, 10, 11, 57, 40].”

“Attitudes toward jobs were also found to influence job performance [56, 26].”

“A review of dispersion traffic among the variables showed a linear relationship, a Durbin-Watson value of 1.96, no auto-correlation issues, and no multi co-variance issues among independent variables.”

“have relationships with job satisfaction as well [34].”

“In addition, studies conducted showed that employees with high-level self-esteem had high-level job satisfaction [43, 10, 11, 57, 40].”

“dissatisfaction about job, it was discovered to lead to job stress as a basis for negative attitudes towards job [13].”

“According to a similar definition, it is described as evaluations associated with individuals’ pleasure with life [65].”

“In a similar study, Demirtaş, Cömert, and Özer [28] found a positive relationship between self-efficacy and attitudes toward profession in pre-service teachers.”

“A positive relationship between job satisfaction and life satisfaction was found in similar studies [4, 47, 3, 12, 25].”

“Similarly, Karabıyık and Korumaz [81] found a positive relationship between teacher efficacy and job satisfaction in their study conducted in Turkey.”

“In another similar study, Gençtürk and Memiş [36] revealed the relationship between teacher efficacy and the job satisfaction.”

“Personal inclination, close relationship, and cultural experiences were reported to be more important in explaining the satisfaction with life [22].”

“In addition, studies conducted showed that employees with high-level self-esteem had high-level job satisfaction [43, 10, 11, 57, 40].”

“Another study showed that there was a positive relationship between teachers’ self-efficacy and their life satisfaction and a negative relationship between burnout and life satisfaction [67].”

“It was also seen that studies on life satisfaction has been on increase [12, 25, 33, 76].”

“A review of studies on teacher efficacy indicates that most studies were conducted with pre-service teachers and research with teachers was limited [1, 73, 75, 45, 41, 78].”

“In another similar study, Akgündüz [2] found a positive relationship between job satisfaction and satisfaction with life and self-efficacy.”

“In a similar study, teacher efficacy significantly predicted job satisfaction [35].”

“Attitudes toward jobs were also found to influence job performance [56, 26].”

“Döş and Atalmış [83] studied the results of PISA tests conducted to evaluate education qualities in OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) countries.”

“Individuals with low-levels of self-esteem were found to be pessimistic about their future and to have negative thoughts [21].”

“In similar studies conducted, relationships were found between job satisfaction and personality characteristics [27, 49, 61].”

“A positive relationship between job satisfaction and life satisfaction was found in similar studies [4, 47, 3, 12, 25].”

“It was also seen that studies on life satisfaction has been on increase [12, 25, 33, 76].”

“, 2022), higher levels of job satisfaction (Çevik, 2017), and better job performance (Chughtai, 2021).”

“This commitment is influenced by both emotional factors and the teachers’ perception of their lives as well as professional-demographic resources such as seniority, experience, education level, and role in the school (Çevik, 2017).”

“…como la satisfacción con la vida (Kapikiran, 2013; Tagay, 2015); la autoeficacia de los docentes (Sahin, 2017); la satisfacción en el trabajo (Çevik, 2017); el rendimiento académico, los logros interpersonales, la felicidad y un estilo de vida saludable (Baumeister, Campbell, Krueger y Vohs,…”

“Research shows that both CTC (Skaalvik & Skaalvik, 2018) and its components (Cerit, 2014; Tabancalı, 2016) positively relate to JS, which, in turn, predicts TJP in Turkish schools (Altınkurt & Yılmaz, 2012; Çevik, 2017; Uzun & Ozdem, 2017).”

“First of all, past research demonstrated teachers’ self-esteem and teachers’ job satisfaction were highly correlated (e.g., Çevik, 2017).”

“Especially teacher self-esteem is considered important because the self-esteem and professional awareness of teachers to educate future generations will have a positive impact on their job satisfaction(Çevik, 2017).”

“, 2006), professional burnout (Chung, Shu & Tung, 2009; Liana, Inga & Kristaps, 2011; Sasaki, Kitaoka Morikawa & Nakagawa, 2009; Surgevil, 2005; Veladet & Kallay, 2010; Wallace & Lee, 2010), self-efficacy (Betoret, 2006), emotional dependence (Uzun, 2011), life satisfaction (Buyuksahin-Cevik, 2017), conflict (Gunduz,…”

“In the case of a sample of 358 high school teachers, it was empirically demonstrated that TSE, life satisfaction, and self-esteem predict job satisfaction (Çevik, 2017).”

“…au urmărit relaţiile dintre credinţa în autoeficacitatea în munca de predare, respectiv satisfacţia faţă de viaţă (Bjorklund, Warstadt şi Daly, 2021; Çevik, 2017; Pretsch, Flunger şi Schmitt, 2012) şi/sau satisfacţia profesională (Caprara et al ., 2003; Çevik, 2017; Karabiyik şi Korumaz, 2014).”

“Moreover, some emotional and mental factors, like self-esteem, joy, psychological empowerment, and trust are also important predictors of teachers’ job satisfaction (Atmaca et al., 2020 ; Çevik, 2017; Singh & Gautam, 2024).”

“Affective conditions, including a positive perception of life, may also influence teachers’ professional commitment (Cevik, 2017).”

“Through this instructional support, teachers developed self-efficacy in their ability to help students succeed (Podolsky et al., 2016) which has been found to be a factor in teacher retention (Büyükşahin Çevik, 2017; Espinoza et al., 2018; Hughes, 2012; Podolsky et al., 2016).”

“There have been few recent studies that identified a highly positive relationship between self-esteem and job satisfaction of teachers (Çevik, 2017; Mocheche, Bosire, & Raburu, 2017).”

“Çevik (2017), who examined teacher satisfaction with subjective quality of life, effectiveness of education and self-report of emotional abilities, found that satisfaction with subjective quality of life and self-report of emotional abilities played an important role in teachers’ job satisfaction.”