What Makes the Teacher Happy?

Rahmat Aziz, Retno Mangestuti, Esa Nur Wahyuni

2018

Abstract

Teacher happiness has become an important part in education context because it can be predicted to student academic success. The study aimed to examine the effect of job satisfaction and gender on teacher happiness. Participants were 358 teachers at Islamic kindergarten and Islamic primary school in East Java. Data were obtained through the job satisfaction index, life satisfaction scales and approach to happiness questionnaire. Data were analyzed by regression and variance analysis. The result showed that teacher's job satisfaction had an effect on teacher's happiness (R = .526 p <.01), and female are happier than male teachers (F = 6.147 p <.05).; The teacher who has shorter of work period are happier than longer of work period (F = 3.889 p <.05).

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Aziz R., Mangestuti R. and Wahyuni E. (2018). What Makes the Teacher Happy?.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 1458-1463. DOI: 10.5220/0009929614581463

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Rahmat Aziz and Retno Mangestuti and Esa Nur Wahyuni},
title={What Makes the Teacher Happy?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={1458-1463},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009929614581463},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - What Makes the Teacher Happy?
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Aziz R.
AU - Mangestuti R.
AU - Wahyuni E.
PY - 2018
SP - 1458
EP - 1463
DO - 10.5220/0009929614581463