Probing EFL Teachers’ Job Motivation in the Light of Intra-individual Level Predictors

• Authors: Afsaneh Ghanizadeh , Nahid Royaei

Abstracts

EN

The present study aims to scrutinize teacher motivation in relation to two individual level predictors, namely, self-efficacy and burnout among English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers. To this end, 142 English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers were selected from various English language institutes of Mashhad and Tehran, two cities in Iran. They were requested to complete three questionnaires: the Maslach Burnout Inventory, the Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale, and the Work Tasks Motivation Scale for Teachers. The findings obtained via SEM revealed that the proposed model had a good fit with the empirical data. In particular, it was found that job motivation contributed significantly to burnout depletion. It was also revealed that self-efficacy positively predicted job motivation, and burnout negatively influenced self-efficacy. However, self-efficacy surpassed motivation in predicting EFL instructors’ burnout. Results were discussed from both theoretical standpoints as well as previous empirical findings. Finally, implications were presented.

Keywords

EN

EFL instructors; SEM; Burnout; Motivation; Self-efficacy

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 375-382

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Afsaneh Ghanizadeh

author

Nahid Royaei

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2127872