Open AccessTeacher motivation, work satisfaction, and positive psychological capital: A literature review
Author(s) -
João Viseu,
Saul Neves de Jesús,
Cláudia Rus,
José Manuel Canavarro
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
revista electrónica de investigación psicoeducativa y psicopedagógica/revista de investigación psicoeducativa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.256
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1699-5880
pISSN - 1696-2095
DOI - 10.25115/ejrep.39.15102
Subject(s) - work motivation , psychology , work (physics) , intrinsic motivation , capital (architecture) , self determination theory , job satisfaction , positive psychological capital , goal theory , social psychology , applied psychology , mathematics education , pedagogy , political science , mechanical engineering , autonomy , archaeology , law , engineering , history
Teacher motivation is vital for the educational system. For teachers to be motivated their work satisfaction and positive psychological capital are crucial. The state-of-the-art on teacher motivation requires a literature review regarding the studies that relate teacher motivation and the abovementioned constructs. In this paper, through electronic databases, the published studies between 1990-2014 about these issues were identified. A total of 43 studies were obtained. The main conclusions were the following: (a) 2012 was the year with more publications (n = 7; 16.28%); (b) quantitative methodologies (n = 40; 93.02%) and self-report questionnaires (n = 43; 89.59%) were the dominant methodology and instrument type; and (c) work satisfaction was the most studied concept with teacher motivation (n = 42; 97.67%). Our results underline the importance of work satisfaction on teacher motivation and emphasize the need to realize more studies on the relationship between teacher motivation and positive psychological capital.