“…In this context, it is thought that the study will make a unique contribution to the literature of teacher motivation in Turkish culture in terms of evaluating the original dynamics of the teaching profession in the psychological, social, cultural, and institutional sense. In the literature, the using of the adaptations of general job motivation scales in most of the studies on teacher motivation (e.g., Akman, 2018;Çivilidağ & Şekercioğlu, 2017;Dündar, Özutku & Taşpınar, 2007;Emirbey, 2017;Güçlü et al, 2014;Yılmaz, 2009); the fact that all aspects of the school and education context are not addressed or the validity and reliability of the studies are not adequately presented in general in the case of scale development studies (e.g., Akdemir & Arslan, 2013;Bektaş, 2010;Polat, 2010) increases the importance of the study. In some scale development studies aimed at teacher motivation (e.g., Akdemir & Arslan, 2013;Ceviz, 2018;Öztürk & Uzunkol, 2013), the factors affecting teacher motivation such as macro education policies, parent and student factors were excluded.…”