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A comparison of role concepts between public and parochial school teachers
Author(s) -
Presse Norman J.,
Bills Robert E.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198101)18:1<107::aid-pits2310180120>3.0.co;2-6
Subject(s) - varimax rotation , psychology , school teachers , variance (accounting) , mathematics education , social psychology , factor (programming language) , ideal (ethics) , psychometrics , developmental psychology , political science , law , cronbach's alpha , accounting , computer science , business , programming language
This study seeks to determine if the same five bipolar factors that appear for the ideal role concepts of public school teachers also appear for parochial school teachers. Subjects included 185 teachers from a Catholic diocese. The data were factor analyzed by means of a principal axis analysis with varimax rotation. An analysis of variance was used to compare the factor analyses. The results indicated that parochial and public school teachers have similar factor structures. When comparing factor scores of the two groups, there were significant differences on several factors, indicating that parochial school teachers adopt a more facilitating role than do public school teachers.