| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系在職進修碩士班 === 98 === The purposes of this research were to explore the level of professional commitment and job satisfaction among junior high school counselors in Taiwan. A total of 425 junior high school counselors from Taipei City and Taipei County were invited to complete questionnaires on professional commitment and job satisfaction in this study. The collected data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, chi-square test, t-test, one-way and two-way ANOVA and product-moment correlation. Major results of the research are as follows:
1.Majority of the junior high school counselors were younger with less work experience and non-guidance college major in comparison to teachers in general. Most of the junior high school counselors with administrative responsibility were graduated from college with non-guidance major. Most of the junior high school counselors with guidance major in college do not take administrative positions.
2.Junior high school counselors on average showed a middle-high level of professional commitment.
3.Junior high school counselors with different college majors, job title, and teaching subject showed significant difference in level of professional commitment, yet showed no difference among variables such as gender, education level, continued education, school location, school category, and school size. There were interaction effects between college major and job title.
4.There were positive correlations between the ages, counselors’ years of work and professional commitment among junior high school counselors.
5.Junior high school counselors obtained a middle-high score in their job satisfaction.
6.Junior high school counselors with different gender, college major, and job title showed significant difference in levels of job satisfaction, yet showed no difference among variables such as education level, continued education, teaching subject, school location, school category, and school size.
7.There were no correlations between the ages, counselors’ years of work and job satisfaction among junior high school counselors.
In the end, implications of the results and suggestions for junior high school counselors, junior high schools, educational administrators, training institutions and future studies were also presented.
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