The impact of the school climate on the job satisfaction of primary school educators
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The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between the school climate and the job satisfaction of primary school educators. At the same time, investigate the effect of the demographic – professional characteristics of the educators (gender, age, working relationship, years of teaching experience, speciality, and level of education) on this relationship. The sample consisted of 161 primary school teachers, who served in Achaia regional unity primary schools. The data collection was done with the help of an electronic questionnaire. Specifically, we used the Job Satisfaction Index to measure job satisfaction, while the Revised School Level Environment Questionnaire for the school climate. Our findings show that there is a positive and statistically significant correlation between all variables of the school climate with job satisfaction, with stronger relationships between student-teacher cooperation and teacher-teacher cooperation. Also, the degree of the educators’ job satisfaction is high, while the climate of the schools they serve is characterized as open – positive. The gender and the education level of the educators do not differentiate any of the variables studied. On the contrary, the speciality is an important factor in differentiating teachers’ job satisfaction, while the age, the working relationship, the years of experience and the speciality affect almost all the variables of the school climate.
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Κοζιώρη Κ. Β., & Αλεξανδρόπουλος Γ. (2020). The impact of the school climate on the job satisfaction of primary school educators. Hellenic Journal of Research in Education, 9(1), 35–57. https://doi.org/10.12681/hjre.22354
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