Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 特殊教育學系 === 107 === The purpose of the study was to investigate career development and well-being of special education teachers in junior high schools, to compare the differences in career development and well-being of special education teachers with different backgrounds, and to analyze the relationship between career development and well-being.
Questionnaire was the main instrument in this study. “Career Development of School Teachers’ Scale” and “ Chinese People Happiness Scale” were utilized. The participants were sampled from the special education teachers in Taipei city, New Taipei city ,and Taoyuan city. Totally 137 questionnaires were distributed and 131 valid questionnaires were collected. The data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics, t-test, one way ANOVA, and Pearson’s product-moment correlation. The findings were elaborated as follows:
1.The situation of the career development of special education teachers had the highest score on “career learning” and “career enthusiasm” dimension. The following dimension was “career shift” and “career frustration”. The lowest score on the scale was the “career stagnancy” dimension.
2.Different marital status of special education teachers showed a significant difference in the “career frustration” dimension, and special education teachers who worked in different school size showed a significant difference in the “career stagnancy” dimension.
3.The feeling of well-being of special education teachers was over moderate degree.
4.Different educational background and seniority of special education teachers showed a significant difference in well-being.
5. There is a low positive correlation between the dimension of “career enthusiasm” of special education teachers and well-being; there is a low negative correlation between “career frustration” and well-being; there is a low negative correlation between “career stagnancy” and well-being.
Finally, based on the results of the study, the researcher provided suggestions to education administrations, special education teachers ,and future research.
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