The Subjective Social Status Exists The Mediating Effect Between Psychological Empowerment And Work-family Enrichment

Objective:(1)To develop the subjective social status questionnaire for primary and middle school teachers.(2)To investigate the current situation of psychological empowerment,subjective social status and work-family enrichment in primary and middle school teachers.(3)To analyze the relationship between psychological empowerment,subjective social status and work-family enrichment,and explore that whether subjective social status exists the mediating effect between the psychological empowerment and work-family enrichment,and the present study hopes to provide a theoretical guidance for primary and middle school teachers' professional development and the school teaching reform and implementation.Methods: First,develop the subjective social status questionnaire for primary and middle school teachers by literature review,interview,statistical analysis.Then the subjective social status questionnaire,the psychological empowerment scale,and the work-family enrichment questionnaire were used to test in 612 primary and middle school teachers who came from the teacher training classes in normal college of a comprehensive university and many primary and middle schools in Shenzhen from October to December in 2016.Finally,the SPSS20.0 and AMOS24.0 were used to analyze data.Result:(1)The development of subjective social status questionnaire for primary and middle school teachers was of good reliability and validity,with 21 items,divided into economic security,social identity,professional ability,occupation value,occupational qualities.Tested by reliability and validity,the questionnaire had good content validity,construct validity,criterion-ralated validity and internal consistency reliability.(2)Male teachers scored higher on the self-efficacy dimension of psychological empowerment(t = 3.96,p < 0.05)and work impact dimensionof psychological empowerment(t = 2.48,p < 0.05)than women;But female teachers scored higher on the social identity of the subjective social status than male teachers(t = 3.22,p < 0.05).There was no statistically significant difference between men and women in the work-family enrichment(3)The results of regression analysis of psychological empowerment,subjective social status and work-family enrichment: Social identity had a significant predictive effect for work to family enrichment,and partially mediated between work meaning,job autonomy and work to family enrichment.Occupation value had a significant predictive effect for family to work enrichment,and partially mediated between work meaning,self-efficacy and family to work enrichment,but completely mediated between job autonomy,work effectand family to work enrichment.(4)Social identity partially mediated between work meaning,job autonomy and work to family enrichment.Occupation value partially mediated between work meaning,self-efficacy and family to work enrichment,but completely mediated between job autonomy,work effectand family to work enrichment.Conclusion:(1)The development of subjective social status questionnaire for primary and middle school teachers was of good reliability and validity for the groups of primary and middle school teachers.(2)Men teachershad more confidence and more influencein work than women teachers,but female teachers was more likely to perceive the social respect for their teachers' identity and recognition than men teachers.(3)Work meaning had a significant predictive effect for work to family enrichment andfamily to work enrichment.It could influence work to family enrichment through social identity,and influence family to work enrichment through occupation value.(4)Self-efficacy had a significant predictive effect for work to family enrichment andfamily to work enrichment,and it could influence family to work enrichment through occupation value.(5)Job autonomy had a significant predictive effect for work to family enrichment.It could influence work to family enrichmentthrough social identity,and influence family to work enrichment through occupation value.(6)Work effect could influence family to work enrichmentcompletely through occupation value.