The Relationship Among Career Commitment, Career Satisfaction and Career Burnout of Special Education Teachers

Abstract

347 special education teachers were used as subjects, and the relationship among career commitment, career satisfaction and career burnout were investigated by questionnaire survey. The result showed: Career commitment had a significant positive effect on the career satisfaction, and it had a significant negative effect on career burnout; Career satisfaction had a significant negative predictive effect on career burnout, and it was a complete mediator variable of career commitment and career burnout. Therefore, Career satisfaction played an important role in maintaining special education teachers' career commitment and effectively avoiding their career burnout. Methods Objects of StudyThe distribution of subjects involved 17 provinces, and they were measured in a group. This study delivered 370 questionnaires and received 347 copies. The effective rate was 94%, and in this group, included 51 (14.7%) males and 296 (85.3%) females. Research ToolsCareer Commitment Questionnaire. Occupational Commitment Sale for Middle School and Elementary School Teachers was produced by Lirong Long and Xia Li [7]. The questionnaire consists of 16 subjects, which are divided into three dimensions: Affective Commitment, Continuance Commitment and Normative Commitment, and it uses five grades, from "complete nonconformity" to "complete conformity". In this study, the Cronbach's α and split-half reliability were 0.882 and 0.749 respectively. The correlation between each dimension and the total questionnaire was between 0.628 and 0.844.Career Satisfaction Questionnaire. The questionnaire compiled by Fuming Xu et al. was reference to Greenhaus's scale [8],and it is used to measure the satisfaction of success, goal progress