The effect test of the mediation between specific psychosocial hazards
on elementary teachers' job demands and their work well-being
- Yu-Hsi Yuan,
- Jin-Chuan Lee,
- Wei-Wen Chang,
- Chen-Chu Liang
Abstract
The study aims to discover how to enhance teachers' well-being, health,
self-efficacy at schools, and how to alleviate their stress and burnout
conditions so that teachers' teaching and students' learning outcomes
would be greatly improved. A designed survey using questionnaires that
retrieved from literature consisted of three factors and 44 items. The
67 valid responses for pre-test and 944 participants were sampled in 56
schools of Taiwan for the formal survey. The data were put into
mediation effect test of teaching-related psychosocial hazards factors
by SPSS. Result supported that the mediation intensity of
teaching-related psychosocial hazards have a significant weakening
mediation effect on the positive relationship between work resources and
work well-being. It demonstrated that among teaching-related
psychosocial hazards, lesson disturbances and conflicts with parents are
highly hazardous to their work well-being. In consequence, their
teaching efficiency, teaching passions, and teaching performance could
be impacted negatively.