| This study investigated the job satisfaction and organizational commitment of junior high school counselors in Taipei County, Taiwan, Republic of China. The purposes of the study were to (a) determine the level of overall job satisfaction of junior high school counselors; (b) investigate factors relating to job satisfaction of junior high school counselors; (c) assess the level of organizational commitment, including affective, normative, and continuance commitment of junior high school counselors; (d) explore the relationship between the level of job satisfaction and the level of organizational commitment including affective, normative, and continuance commitment, and (e) understand if junior high school counselors' job satisfaction can be predicted by affective, normative, and continuance commitments and by selected demographic variables. This study posed five questions: (1) What are the levels of overall job satisfaction in junior high school counselors in Taipei County, Taiwan? (2) For junior high school counselors in Taipei, Taiwan, is there a relationship between overall job satisfaction and selected demographic variables, including age, teaching experience, counseling experience, educational background, school size, and monthly salary? (3) What are the affective, normative, and continuance commitment levels of junior high school counselors in Taipei, Taiwan? (4) What are the relationships between job satisfaction and affective, normative, and continuance commitment, respectively? (5) Can junior high school counselors' job satisfaction be predicted by affective, normative, and continuance commitments and the following variables (a) age, (b) years of teaching experience, (c) school size, (d) counseling experience, (e) educational background, (f) monthly salary?; Participants for this study were all 325 full-time junior high school counselors within the public junior high school system in Taipei County, Taiwan. These counselors were mailed a packet containing the demographic form, short-form Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire, and the Organizational Commitment Scales. Procedures used to analyze the data were the Pearson product moment correlation and multiple regression analyses. The results of the study indicated that (1) the junior high school counselors were generally satisfied with their job with a mean of 3.67 on the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire; (2) there were significant relationships between job satisfaction and selected demographic variables including monthly salary, age, years of teaching, school size, counseling experience, and educational background; (3) the junior high school counselors were primarily operating their commitment to the schools in an affective perspective, followed by continuance and normative commitments; (4) there were significant relationships between job satisfaction and normative commitment, job satisfaction and continuance commitment, normative commitment and continuance commitment; (5) school counselors' job satisfaction was significantly predicted by continuance commitment, school size, educational background, and normative commitment. |
