Teacher-Student Relationship and Teacher Subjective Well-being: Understanding the Employment Status as Moderator

Akhmad Yazid Nugraha(1,Mail), Airin Yustikarini Saleh(2), Shahnaz Safitri(3)

(1) Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
(2) Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
(3) Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia

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Abstract

Teacher-Student Relationship and Teacher Subjective Well-being: Understanding the Employment Status as Moderator. Objective: This research aimed to see whether the teacher employment status could moderate the association between teacher-student relationship and teacher subjective well-being in secondary level of education. Methods: This study uses a quantitative research approach with a non-experimental correlational design. Correlation analysis and simple regression analysis was used to measure the moderation effect. Findings: The result showed that no significant moderation effect of the employment status on the effect of teacher-student relationship to the teacher subjective well-being. Conclusion: The findings of this study fail to confirm the moderation effect of employment status on the association between teacher-student relationship and teacher subjective well-being in secondary level of education.

 

Keywords: teacher subjective well-being; teacher-student relationship; teacher employment status; secondary schools.



DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23960/jpp.v13.i1.202304

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