Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.63.2.3
Resilient in Precarity: How Employment Contract Type Moderates the Relationships between Psychological Factors and Music Teachers’ Intention to Remain in the Profession
Josip Šabić
; Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This study examines whether music teachers’ employment contract type moderates
the relationships between psychological factors—work-related flow, self-efficacy, and
musical calling—and their intention to remain in the profession. Participants were 293 music
teachers (70.9% female) from 55 elementary and upper secondary music schools in Croatia.
On average, teachers reported frequent flow experiences, high self-efficacy, strong musical
calling, and strong intention to remain in the profession. Preliminary correlational analyses
indicated positive associations between all three psychological factors and intention to stay;
however, structural equation modelling revealed that only self-efficacy had a significant direct
effect. Additionally, holding a full-time permanent contract, compared to a part-time and/
or temporary contract, positively predicted intention to remain in the profession. Significant
moderation effects were observed between flow and contract type, as well as between selfefficacy
and contract type, indicating that the associations with intention to remain were more
pronounced among teachers holding part-time and/or temporary contracts compared to those
with full-time permanent contracts. The moderation effect of musical calling and contract type
was not confirmed. Specifically, the results indicate that self-efficacy, as a personal resource, and
flow, conceptualized as an indicator of work engagement within the Job Demands–Resources
(JD-R) framework, serve as more salient facilitating factors for music teachers employed under
less favourable contract conditions. Accordingly, efforts to strengthen work-related self-efficacy
and flow are likely to have a greater impact on music teachers with part-time and/or temporary
contracts in supporting their intention to remain in the profession.
Keywords
music teachers; flow at work; self-efficacy; musical calling; employment contract; teacher attrition; Job Demands–Resources Theory
Hrčak ID:
340081
URI
Publication date:
30.10.2025.
Visits: 789 *