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Chow, Angela; Galambos, Nancy L.; Krahn, Harvey J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
This 25-year longitudinal study of a sample of Canadian high school seniors (N = 373) examined pathways from work values at age 18 to mid-life (age 43) career satisfaction and life satisfaction through several possible mediators: age 25 and 32 work values, months of postsecondary education (PSE) by age 25, and age 43 work rewards. Gender and…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, High School Seniors, Longitudinal Studies, Values
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St-Jean, Étienne; Mathieu, Cynthia – Journal of Career Development, 2015
Mentoring is reputed to support the career choices and development of individuals in various contexts. This study is one of the few that investigates the effect of mentoring on career satisfaction and retention of novice entrepreneurs. We surveyed 360 novice entrepreneurs who had been supported by a mentor. Our analyses demonstrate the direct…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Entrepreneurship, Novices, Business
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Collie, Rebecca J.; Shapka, Jennifer D.; Perry, Nancy E.; Martin, Andrew J. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2015
This study examined the psychometric properties of the Teacher Well-Being Scale, which assesses three factors of teachers' work-related well-being: workload, organizational, and student interaction well-being. With a sample of Canadian teachers, results confirmed the reliability, approximate normality, and factor structure of the scale; provided…
Descriptors: Well Being, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Test Reliability
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Collie, Rebecca J.; Shapka, Jennifer D.; Perry, Nancy E.; Martin, Andrew J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
The purpose of the current study was to provide a greater depth of knowledge about teachers' psychological functioning at work-including the contextual, basic psychological need satisfaction and personal factors relevant to this. We examined the extent to which perceived autonomy support predicts basic psychological need satisfaction and, in turn,…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Need Gratification, Teacher Characteristics, Professional Autonomy
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Collie, Rebecca J.; Shapka, Jennifer D.; Perry, Nancy E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
The aims of this study were to investigate whether and how teachers' perceptions of social-emotional learning and climate in their schools influenced three outcome variables--teachers' sense of stress, teaching efficacy, and job satisfaction--and to examine the interrelationships among the three outcome variables. Along with sense of job…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Student Behavior
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Klassen, Robert M.; Aldhafri, Said; Mansfield, Caroline F.; Purwanto, Edy; Siu, Angela F. Y.; Wong, Marina W.; Woods-McConney, Amanda – Journal of Experimental Education, 2012
This study explored the validity of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale in a sample of 853 practicing teachers from Australia, Canada, China (Hong Kong), Indonesia, and Oman. The authors used multigroup confirmatory factor analysis to test the factor structure and measurement invariance across settings, after which they examined the relationships…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis