Student Discipline and Teacher Job Satisfaction: A Dual District Analysis

Georgia Educational Research Association. Available from: Digital Commons. Zach S. Henderson Library, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30458. e-mail: [email protected]; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gerjournal/

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Discipline; Student Behavior; Behavior Problems; Job Satisfaction; Secondary School Teachers; Secondary School Students; Correlation; Stress Variables; Predictor Variables; Teacher Characteristics; Work Environment; Leadership Styles; Principals; School Districts; Suburban Schools

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This study aimed to contribute to the empirical literature related to student discipline's influence on teacher job satisfaction. Further, this research aimed to explore the correlation between student discipline and teacher job satisfaction while controlling for the contributing factors of job satisfaction). Also, this research study's results were interpreted through the lens of the Affective Events Theory indicating a person's emotions and behaviors for the workplace may influence their job satisfaction. An Ordinary Least Squares regression found that the correlation between student discipline and teacher job satisfaction was not statistically significant. However, the directionality of the relationship between student discipline and teacher job satisfaction was negative. By studying student discipline and teacher job satisfaction, this research determined that student discipline does harm teacher job satisfaction.

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2021

EJ1309733