A Study on Relationships between Job Characteristics and Job Satisfaction for Elementary School Physical Education Teachers－An example in Kaohsiung City

• Main Authors: Xin-Gui Zeng, 曾新貴
• Other Authors: Guo-Hua Li
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64879319157502799612

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 體育學系 === 95 === Many studies found that the job satisfaction would influence the teachers’ working morale and teaching efficiency, which is also true to physical education teachers. Thus, it is a crucial issue to promote the job satisfaction of the physical education teachers. In Taiwan, studies on the job satisfaction of the elementary school physical education teachers were mostly focused on how physical education teachers’ personal background variables influenced the job satisfaction. This study employed the job characteristics of elementary school physical education teachers as medium variables to analyze how the background variables affecting the job satisfaction. After using stratified random sampling method to choose certain elementary schools in Kaohsiung city, as well as purposive selection，total of 538 physical education teachers were selected to take part in this study. The research instrument was “Questionnaire of the working condition of the elementary school physical education teachers” which was designed by the researcher. This study adopted factor analysis, frequencies analysis, variance analysis and multiple regression and path analysis. The main findings of this study were as following: 1. The level of the job satisfaction of the physical education teachers is medium-high. 2. The job characteristics of the physical education teachers had significant effects on the job satisfaction 3. Among the job characteristics, the intrinsic values, importance and autonomy had significant and positive effects while fatigue and repetition had significant and negative influence. The outcome shows that the medium variables chosen in this study are essential and meaningful. 4. The results of path analyses in this study supported the cause-effect model of “the job satisfaction.” To put it differently, the influence of background variables on “the job satisfaction” mainly resulted from the medium variables mentioned above. The intrinsic values and importance especially had greater effects than any other characteristics. Finally, on the basis of the findings, the researcher puts forward relative suggestions with regard to the job satisfaction .of the elementary scho