A Study on the Impact of Teachers’ Professional Abilities and Self-Efficacy on Happiness in Physical Education Teachers in Junior High and High Schools

碩士 === 國立嘉義大學 === 體育與健康休閒學系研究所 === 106 === The study attempts to analyze the situation among teachers’ professional abilities, self-efficacy on happiness in physical education teachers in junior high and high schools, and find the influences among junior high and high schools teachers’ professional...

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Main Authors: Jing-Ying Chiu, 邱瀞瑩
Other Authors: Chia-Ming Chang
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2017
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/wh6557
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Summary:碩士 === 國立嘉義大學 === 體育與健康休閒學系研究所 === 106 === The study attempts to analyze the situation among teachers’ professional abilities, self-efficacy on happiness in physical education teachers in junior high and high schools, and find the influences among junior high and high schools teachers’ professional abilities, self-efficacy and happiness. The sample of this study includes physical education teachers in junior high and high schools in Taiwan. We choose 60 public schools and sent out 500 questionnaires altogether and retrieve 474, the valid retrieve rate comes to 94.8%. The main findings of this study were as follows: There is no significant difference between teachers’ professional abilities and these background variables, such as different genders, marital status, education degree, age, professional title, and teachers’ work place. There is significant difference between teachers’ education degree and self-efficacy. Also, there is significant difference between teachers’ happiness and these background variables, such as years of working, age, professional title, and teachers’ work place. Junior high and high school teachers’ professional abilities have positive influences on self-efficacy. Junior high and high school teachers’ professional abilities have positive influences on happiness. Junior high and high school teachers’ self-efficacy have positive influences on happiness. Self-efficacy has partial mediation effect in this model. Teachers’ professional abilities can tell 49% explanation of variance to self-efficacy. Teachers’ professional abilities and self-efficacy can tell 17% explanation of variance to happiness. Last but not least, this research also provide some practical suggestions for teachers to increase teachers’ happiness.