Journal article

Factors Associated with Teacher Wellbeing: A Meta-Analysis

S Zhou, GR Slemp, DA Vella-Brodrick

Educational Psychology Review | SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS | Published : 2024

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Abstract

Teacher wellbeing has received widespread and increasing global attention over the last decade due to high teacher turnover, growing teacher shortages, and the goal of improving the quality of teaching and student performance. No review has yet sought to undertake a cumulative quantitative assessment of the literature pertaining to teacher wellbeing. Using meta-analysis, we address this gap by systematically examining the relative strength of key antecedents, consequences, and correlates of teacher wellbeing, using the Job Demands-Resources theory as a guide to positioning factors in the nomological network. Following PRISMA guidelines, our systematic search yielded 173 eligible studies for ..

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Funding Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Kelsey Lewis, who worked as a research assistant to partially recode the meta-analytic dataset on which this review is based. The authors declare that they and this assistant had no conflict of interest in conducting this study.