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Van Maele, Dimitri; Van Houtte, Mieke – Journal of Educational Administration, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to consider trust as an important relational source in schools by exploring whether trust lowers teacher burnout. The authors examine how trust relationships with different school parties such as the principal relate to distinct dimensions of teacher burnout. The authors further analyze whether school-level…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Interpersonal Relationship, Teacher Burnout, Prevention
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Van Maele, Dimitri; Van Houtte, Mieke – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
This study relates trust at the level of both the teacher and the faculty to teachers' job satisfaction. Teaching experience is explored as a moderator of the trust-satisfaction relationship. Multilevel analyses on data of 2091 teachers across 80 secondary schools in Flanders (Belgium) revealed positive associations between teacher trust in…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Job Satisfaction, Foreign Countries, Teaching Conditions
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Van Maele, Dimitri; Van Houtte, Mieke – American Journal of Education, 2011
This study explores how structural, compositional, and cultural characteristics of the teacher workplace affect an individual teacher's trust in colleagues. In particular, we investigate whether a homogeneous staff culture facilitates trust among teachers. Multilevel analyses on data of 2,104 teachers across a representative sample of 84 secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Trust (Psychology), Teaching Conditions, Collegiality
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Van Maele, Dimitri; Van Houtte, Mieke – Social Indicators Research, 2011
In exploring the quality of schools' social system, this study provides insight into in which types of schools students may encounter barriers in developing supportive teacher-student relationships because of teachers exposing low levels of trust in students. Student culture and teachability perceptions are assessed as incentives for teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Systems, Trust (Psychology), Teacher Attitudes
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Van Houtte, Mieke; Van Maele, Dimitri – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background: Since the late 1960s, research has demonstrated repeatedly that students in lower tracks achieve less as they develop an antischool culture to overcome the status deprivation resulting from being in a lower track. In quantitative large-scale research, this antischool culture is usually assessed using poor academic attitudes or study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Grade Point Average
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Van Maele, Dimitri; Van Houtte, Mieke – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2009
Purpose: Teachers trusting other groups of actors in their school enhances a school's functioning. Research relating teacher trust to school context has proven scarce, however. This study explores the extent to which teachers from a same school share a level of trust. Organizational value culture, size, and group composition are associated with…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Collegiality, Secondary Schools, Private Schools