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School principals’ social support and teachers’ basic need satisfaction: The mediating role of job demands and job resources
Many teachers report high levels of occupational stress. Teachers’ basic need satisfaction is essential for teachers’ well-being at work. Social support from school principals is assumed to play an important role for teachers’ basic need satisfaction. However, the underlying mechanisms of the relati...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9771846/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36570365 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11218-022-09730-6 |
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author | Maas, Jasper Schoch, Simone Scholz, Urte Rackow, Pamela Schüler, Julia Wegner, Mirko Keller, Roger |
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description | Many teachers report high levels of occupational stress. Teachers’ basic need satisfaction is essential for teachers’ well-being at work. Social support from school principals is assumed to play an important role for teachers’ basic need satisfaction. However, the underlying mechanisms of the relationship between social support from school principals and teachers’ basic need satisfaction are mostly unknown. Previous research suggests that job demands and job resources may play an important mediating role. Therefore, we examine whether teachers’ perceived job demands and job resources serve as mediators between social support from the school principal and teachers’ basic need satisfaction. Using longitudinal data of N = 1071 teachers over the course of one school year, we applied structural equation modelling to test the hypothesised mediation model. Results showed that the relationship between social support from the school principal and teachers’ basic need satisfaction was mediated by teachers’ perceived job demands and job resources. Particularly, the job demand ‘unclear organisational conditions’ and job resource ‘social support from colleagues’ indicated the strongest effects on teachers’ basic need satisfaction. These findings emphasise the responsibility of school principals to provide social support to their teachers and create a well-structured and supportive workplace. In doing so, school principals contribute to a work environment in which teachers can thrive. |
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spelling | pubmed-97718462022-12-23 School principals’ social support and teachers’ basic need satisfaction: The mediating role of job demands and job resources Maas, Jasper Schoch, Simone Scholz, Urte Rackow, Pamela Schüler, Julia Wegner, Mirko Keller, Roger Soc Psychol Educ Article Many teachers report high levels of occupational stress. Teachers’ basic need satisfaction is essential for teachers’ well-being at work. Social support from school principals is assumed to play an important role for teachers’ basic need satisfaction. However, the underlying mechanisms of the relationship between social support from school principals and teachers’ basic need satisfaction are mostly unknown. Previous research suggests that job demands and job resources may play an important mediating role. Therefore, we examine whether teachers’ perceived job demands and job resources serve as mediators between social support from the school principal and teachers’ basic need satisfaction. Using longitudinal data of N = 1071 teachers over the course of one school year, we applied structural equation modelling to test the hypothesised mediation model. Results showed that the relationship between social support from the school principal and teachers’ basic need satisfaction was mediated by teachers’ perceived job demands and job resources. Particularly, the job demand ‘unclear organisational conditions’ and job resource ‘social support from colleagues’ indicated the strongest effects on teachers’ basic need satisfaction. These findings emphasise the responsibility of school principals to provide social support to their teachers and create a well-structured and supportive workplace. In doing so, school principals contribute to a work environment in which teachers can thrive. Springer Netherlands 2022-10-31 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9771846/ /pubmed/36570365 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11218-022-09730-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Maas, Jasper Schoch, Simone Scholz, Urte Rackow, Pamela Schüler, Julia Wegner, Mirko Keller, Roger School principals’ social support and teachers’ basic need satisfaction: The mediating role of job demands and job resources |
title | School principals’ social support and teachers’ basic need satisfaction: The mediating role of job demands and job resources |
title_full | School principals’ social support and teachers’ basic need satisfaction: The mediating role of job demands and job resources |
title_fullStr | School principals’ social support and teachers’ basic need satisfaction: The mediating role of job demands and job resources |
title_full_unstemmed | School principals’ social support and teachers’ basic need satisfaction: The mediating role of job demands and job resources |
title_short | School principals’ social support and teachers’ basic need satisfaction: The mediating role of job demands and job resources |
title_sort | school principals’ social support and teachers’ basic need satisfaction: the mediating role of job demands and job resources |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9771846/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36570365 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11218-022-09730-6 |
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