Teachers’ Motivation and Its Association with Job Commitment and Work Engagement

Pourtousi, Zahra; Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh

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“…The descriptive statistics of the teacher motivation scale refers to the information from Pourtousi and Ghanizadeh research study 5 , and the details are as follows:…”

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“…For the purpose of measuring teacher motivation, TMS was used, which was designed and validated by Pourtousi and Ghanizadeh 5 . The questionnaire included 42 items, measuring 5 factors.…”

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“…The original data relating to participants refer to Pourtousi and Ghanizadeh 5 paper; however, the analysis that the researchers of the current study decided on a different procedure regarding the data analysis. This study investigates the demographic variables of the EFL teachers and two aspects of their engagement by using ANFIS.…”

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“…This research was the backbone of the researchers’ next study. Therefore, Pourtousi and Ghanizadeh 5 designed and validated a scale for measuring teacher motivation based on the collected data from the triangulated qualitative study that was proposed by Pourtoussi et al 2 . The researchers designed a questionnaire based on five factors that is EFL teachers’ motivation scale (TMS) in order to measure teacher motivation.…”

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We employed a new approach in the field of social sciences or psychological aspects of teaching besides using a very common software package that is Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Artificial intelligence (AI) is a new domain that the methods of its data analysis could provide the researchers with new insights for their research studies and more innovative ways to analyze their data or verify the data with this method. Also, a very significant element in teaching is teacher motivation that is the trigger that pushes the teachers forward, depending on some internal and external factors. In the current study, seven research questions were designed to explore different aspects of teacher motivation, and they were analyzed via SPSS. The current study also compared the results by using an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). Due to the similarity of ANFIS to humans' brain intelligence, the results of the current study could be similar to humans regarding what happens in reality. To do so, the researchers used the validated teacher motivation scale (TMS) and asked participants to fill the questionnaire, and analyzed the results. When the inputs were added to the ANFIS system, the model indicated a high accuracy and prediction capability. The findings also illustrated the importance of the tuning model parameters for the ANFIS method to build up the AI model with a high repeatability level. The differences between the results and conclusions are discussed in detail in the article.

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“…The descriptive statistics of the teacher motivation scale refers to the information from Pourtousi and Ghanizadeh research study 5 , and the details are as follows:…”

Section: Findings and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For the purpose of measuring teacher motivation, TMS was used, which was designed and validated by Pourtousi and Ghanizadeh 5 . The questionnaire included 42 items, measuring 5 factors.…”

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“…The concept of commitment is described as one's sense of belonging and loyalty to the organization and profession in which he/she is working (Skaalvik and Skaalvik, 2011). It is composed of three factors of identification, involvement, and loyalty to a job (Pourtousi and Ghanizadeh, 2020). As pinpointed by Meyer and Allen (1991), commitment to an organization can also be conceptualized as affective commitment, continuance commitment, and normative commitment.…”

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The Role of EFL/ESL Teachers’ Psychological Empowerment and Optimism on Their Job Commitment

Xiong

2022

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Research has approved that teaching is a complex profession involving many cognitive, social, cultural, and psycho-emotional factors. To perform efficiently, teachers must be psycho-emotionally powerful and ready to cope with the existing challenges and complications of teaching a second/foreign language. This demands attempts to be made to psychologically empower the teachers to form positive outlooks about their profession and practices. Despite the criticality of psychological empowerment (PE), few studies in L2 contexts have dealt with it. Against this gap, the present article aimed to theoretically analyze the interaction among teachers’ PE, optimism, and commitment. In so doing, the definitions, models, components, typologies, and empirical studies related to these constructs were presented. Finally, practical implications of this line of research for EFL/ESL teachers, teacher trainers, and researchers are provided to raise their awareness of psycho-emotional factors involved L2 education.

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EFL teachers' coping strategies amidst the Covid-19 virtual education and their association with work engagement and teacher apprehension

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Mirzaee

2022

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Teaching can be considered as an extremely demanding and stressful occupation and being a language educator brings about its own distinctive challenges. In the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, teachers worldwide experienced fundamental changes in their profession and their lives as a whole. Coping with such an unprecedented situation and responses to it have created new and extra stressful factors for teachers to cope with, including the difficulties created by quick transition from direct teaching to virtual and remote teaching. This study examined EFL teachers' coping strategies during the Covid-19 virtual education and their association with work engagement and teacher apprehension. A total of 296 language instructors contributed to this study by participating in a survey in January 2021. To determine what coping strategies teachers use in virtual teaching during Covid-19, the researchers adapted the Brief-COPE scale designed and validated by Carver (Int J Behav Med 4:92–100, 1997) to make it appropriate for virtual education. The survey measured 11 coping strategies divided into two broad types, approach and avoidant. For measuring work engagement, the Work and Well-being Survey (UWES) scale designed and validated by Schaufeli and Bakker (Test manual for the Utrecht work engagement scale, vol 3. Utrecht University, The Netherlands, pp. 44–52, 2003. http://www.schaufeli.com ) was utilized. To assess teachers' apprehension, the research employed the Sources of Teachers' Apprehension Scale (STAS) developed by Ghanizadeh et al. (Asia-Pac Educ Res 1–14, 2020). The result demonstrated that the adapted coping strategies scale enjoys acceptable reliability and validity indices. The results estimated via structural equation modeling (SEM) revealed that EFL teachers' approach coping strategies positively and significantly predicted work engagement ( β = 0.72, t = 10.56). Work engagement was negatively predicted by avoidant coping strategies ( β = − 0.29, t = − 3.36). Teacher apprehension was negatively influenced by approach coping strategies ( β = − 0.44, t = − 5.57) and positively by avoidant coping strategies ( β = 0.43, t = 5.29). The study proposes some practical recommendations for overcoming the Covid-19 related challenges which could further deliver valuable guidance for supporting future training of teachers.

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Teachers’ Motivation and Its Association with Job Commitment and Work Engagement

Cited by 24 publications

References 19 publications

Ability of neural network cells in learning teacher motivation scale and prediction of motivation with fuzzy logic system

Ability of neural network cells in learning teacher motivation scale and prediction of motivation with fuzzy logic system

The Role of EFL/ESL Teachers’ Psychological Empowerment and Optimism on Their Job Commitment

EFL teachers' coping strategies amidst the Covid-19 virtual education and their association with work engagement and teacher apprehension

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