The Work Engagement Of Primary And Secondary School Teachers And Its Impact Factors

Work engagement is an emerging psychological study field, which came into being by the influence of active psychology at the end of last century. Work engagement is from the west, and its study is still in primary stage now. There are many disputations about how to measure the work engagement, up till now, nobody has developed the primary and secondary teachers'work engagement questionnaire. In our country, only several researchers have introduced this theory, nobody has developed work engagement questionnaire according to the situation of our country, saying nothing of the primary and secondary teachers'work engagement questionnaire. Therefore we hope that we can develope the primary and secondary teachers'work engagement questionnaire, in order to offer a tool that has good reliability and validity for researchers to measure.We had compiled the items of primary and secondary teachers'work engagement according to literature review, interview, and open questionnaire investigation, and then established the item store. After that, we had invited many Primary and Secondary teachers, Psychologists, graduate students of the psychology department , and students of The Art to evaluate each dimensionality and item, and then we had designed the original questionnaire according to their advice. In the prepared study, we had extracted four factors, namely work pleasure, work value, work ahead and work obligation according to the results of explore factor analysis. This structure is very clear and accord with our frame of reference. In the formal study, we had used the other sample to make the confirm factory analysis and analyze the reliability and validity. The results of analysis show that the reliability and validity of the primary and secondary teachers. Work engagement questionnaire are very good which can act as the measurement tool of the primary and wecondary teachers'work engagement. In the applied study, we had studied the actuality of primary and wecondary teachers'work engagement according to the formal study data, and analyzed the differences from different degree of work engagement in the main demographic variables. In addition, we had a preliminary study of the relationship between the teaching efficacy,vocational identity and job involvement. In the end, we had summaried the results of the study,pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of the study, and giving some advice for the future study.The main conclusions of the study:⑴The structure of the Primary and Secondary teachers'work engagement is made up of four dimensionalities, namely work pleasure, work value, work ahead and work obligation.⑵The structure of teachers, work engagement is reasonable, and its reliability and validity are very good. It is a good tool to measure the primary and secondary teachers'work engagement, which incarnated the culture characteristics of our country and the particularity of the primary and secondary teacher.⑶The degree of the Primary and Secondary teachers'work engagement of has the significant differences among the grade of teaching, the age, the length of service. But there have not significant differences among the sex, the kind of school, school level and the monthly income.⑷Professional identity and teaching efficacy significantly affected primary and secondary school teachers, work engagement, professional identity in teaching efficacy and play an intermediary role between work engagement.