Job satisfaction and motivation to leave the job among Teachers: relationships with school situation, feeling of belonging, and emotional burnout

This study reviews the relationships between school situation and teachers’ feeling of belonging, emotional burn out, job satisfaction, and motivation to leave the educational situation. Six faces of the school context were assessed: value homophony, supervisory support, relationships with coworkers, relationships with parents, time demands, and discipline troubles. The participants were 256 Iranian teachers in elementary school and secondary school. The data were calculated by means of SEM analyses. All six school situation variables were correlated to job satisfaction and motivation to leave the job. These relationships were mainly indirect, mediated by feelings of belonging and emotional burn out.