“…Teaching self-efficacy, also called teacher self-efficacy, is a wellknown mechanism that can alleviate job stress and promote job satisfaction and further job retention by mitigating the negative impact of environmental obstacles and job stress (e.g., Chiu, 2010, 2011;Li et al, 2017;Troesch and Bauer, 2017;Ismayilova and Klassen, 2019;Yin et al, 2020). Numerous studies found that teaching self-efficacy significantly predicted teacher job satisfaction in K-12 school settings (Klassen and Chiu, 2010;Sun and Xia, 2018;Zakariya, 2020;Ortan et al, 2021;Saks et al, 2021;Richter et al, 2022). Despite the attention to the relationship among teachers' job satisfaction, job stress, and teaching selfefficacy in K-12 school settings (Tschannen-Moran and Hoy, 2007;Skaalvik and Skaalvik, 2014), a mediating role of teaching selfefficacy has not been much scrutinized with diverse samples of teachers in higher education, particularly in non-Western cultural settings (Klassen and Chiu, 2010;Yin et al, 2020).…”