Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v24i4.4343

How Professional Efficacy Affects Professional Motivation and Professional Engagement in Teachers

Sedat Alev ; Ministry of National Education, Nuray Tuncay Kara Science and Art Center

Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine the relation between teachers’ professional efficacy and professional engagement through the mediation of professional motivation. Based on data collected from 426 primary school teachers in Turkey, this research used the structural equation model approach and the bootstrap method to test the model. The results showed that teachers’ professional efficacy is a significant positive predictor of professional engagement, and that professional motivation had a fully mediating role between professional efficacy and professional engagement. Professional efficacy had an indirect effect on professional engagement through the mediation of professional motivation. The findings of this research also indicate that both professional efficacy and professional motivation are necessary for improving teachers’ performance through their professional engagement. The factors that positively influence teachers’ professional engagement include school administrators who promote the improvement of teachers’ professional efficacy by acting equally and fairly with the goal of increasing teachers’ professional motivation, directing and supporting them in their professional endeavours, and making them feel a part of the school.

Keywords

teacher; efficacy; primary school; Turkey.

Hrčak ID:

295269

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/295269

Publication date:

21.12.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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