A Study On Occupational Well-being Of Secondary School Principals

Well-being is the ultimate goal of life. It is also the ultimate goal of education. Today, against the background of building socialism harmonious society, thorough educational reform, and the implementation of Quality Education, people become pay more and more attention to well-being and well-being of Education. Following the rising of western Positive Psychology and the increasing of Humane Care in the area of educational research, the topics of well-being of education, well-being of teachers, and well-being of students have already come into the vision of researchers. There is a saying:A good principal is a good school, as an educator, manager and leader, the well-being of principal will plays importance to the Well-being of teachers and students. So conducting the research about the situation of Occupational Well-being of a principal, that is:Is the principal happy? How to be happier? Compare it with the research about:Is the principal competent and how to be more competent? The former has new significance and value.In order to study the Occupational Well-being of secondary school principals, discussing the core concepts, such as Well-being, Sense of Well-being, Sense of Occupational Well-being, is the logical premise of study. So in the first chapter-Introduction, the author explains the origin of this topic and literature review, defines the core concepts, and presents the thinking, content and methods of the study. Then the author discusses the meaning, the support theory, the nature and the type of Occupational Well-being of Secondary School Principal in detail. Thus the analysis model of Occupational Well-being of Secondary School Principals is built. According to this dissertation, the definition of the Occupational Well-being of Secondary School Principal is:under the influence of the inside factors and outside factors of the school, on the post of principal, because of the satisfaction with needs and the accomplishment of expects, the secondary school principals gain pleasure psychological experience. It mainly derives from the satisfaction with the job, the occupational achievement and the heart contentment.In order to make clear the situation of Occupational Well-being of Chinese Secondary Principals, making use of a suitable scale as the measure tool is very important. From20C60S, Psychologists and Sociologists had already started developing the scale of Well-being, and had accomplished a lot of classical Questionnaire and Scales. As long as the theory concerned, these classical scales can be used to measure the level of Well-being of the Secondary School Principals, but take the particularity of Secondary School Principal into account, the applicability of the classical scales need to be validated. So it is necessary to develop a Scale of Occupational Well-being of Secondary Principals (SOWSP) which mirrors the feature of secondary school principals authentically and totally. Through literature review, interviewing and open questionnaire, this dissertation developed SOWSP. After two times of tests, the index of Psychometric was examined, combining with the expert review, the SOWSP was revised for many times, and the SOWSP with high reliability and validity was produced at last. SOWSP is composed by three subscales:subscale of Occupational Satisfaction, subscale of Occupational Achievement and subscale of Heart Contentment. SOWSP uses Likert5points scale, sum the score of every item and then get a total score, the higher the score, the higher the level of Occupational Well-being.This dissertation uses SOWSP developed by the author herself to conduct investigation. According to the investigation, today, the level of Occupational Well-being of Chinese Secondary School Principals is high, and there are differences among gender, age, tenure, size of school, urban or rural, area, school stage of education and students'quality. In order to go deep into the overall situation and individual differences, the author interviews secondary school principals again going with the statistical data and then explains the investigation results in detail.On the basis of survey which gets the surface of overall situation and the interview which acquires the points of the reasons behind, this dissertation analyzes the sources and influencing factors of the Occupational Well-being of Secondary School Principals. The sources of Occupational Well-being of Secondary School Principal are:they love the career of education, they are satisfied with the income of this job, gain occupational achievement, and they are recognized by other people and accomplish heart contentment. The factors influence the Occupational Well-being of Secondary School Principals can be summarized as factors of society, occupational characteristic, department of Education and some other comprehensive factors.How to promote the level of Occupational Well-being of Secondary School Principals? According to the investigation and reason-analysis, this dissertation raises suggestions for secondary school principals promote the level of occupational well-being from three aspects: department of Education, secondary school principal itself and society. The educational department should hold the'happy people'hypothesis of human nature, reform the evaluation system of principal, build the developmental evaluation system and encouragement mechanism of secondary school principals. Principals themselves should build the students'-based pursuit and promote their spirit and ability of profession, to be a competent principal, to be good at self-relaxing, and go with good mood attitude when facing the challenges. The society should give principals more support and rational expectancy, and form a good guidance of public opinion.