Teacher job satisfaction and motivation to leave the teaching profession: Relations with school context, feeling of belonging, and emotional exhaustion

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1029-1038

  Skaalvik, Einar M ^a   Skaalvik, Sidsel ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Belonging; Emotional exhaustion; School context; Teacher job satisfaction; Teacher motivation; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958193827     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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