Sociology of Education

Job performance

Pedagogy

Job satisfaction

Mathematics

Confirmatory factor analysis

Psychotherapist

Statistics

Job attitude

Philosophy

Psychology

Well-being

Linguistics

Norwegian

Structural equation modeling

Social psychology

Social Psychology of Education

We analyzed how teacher perception of job demands and job resources in the school environment were related to teacher well-being, engagement and motivation to leave the teaching profession. Participants were 760 Norwegian teachers in grade 1–10. Data were analyzed by means of confirmatory factor analysis and SEM analysis. A second order job demand variable strongly predicted lower teacher well-being, whereas job resources more moderately predicted higher well-being. Teacher well-being was in turn predictive of higher engagement and lower motivation to leave the profession. Analysis of primary factors showed that time pressure was the strongest predictor of teacher well-being.

Job demands and job resources as predictors of teacher motivation and well-being