The Influencing factors of professional well-being of university educators: Qualitative analysis of NVIVO based on 36 literatures

Abstract

The well-being of educators on the job is crucial to educators’ personal development. The level of well-being experienced by educators at work has a direct impact on the well-being of students and teaching quality, but it is influenced by many factors. Summarizing the main influencing factors can find specific directions for effective improvement of educators' professional well-being. However, there is currently a lack of systematic literature review on this aspect. The influencing factors of university educators' professional well-being are the basis and premise of studying well-being. Based on the qualitative analysis of 36 literatures on well-being, to summarize the research conducted by researchers from 2018 to 2022 on the influencing factors of career happiness among college educators. Qualitative research was used and Nvivo, a qualitative analysis tool, was used for coding. The article found that the influencing factors of university educators' professional well-being are composed of six aspects: organizational management, work ecology, individual characteristics, emotional perception, value realization and external environment. Among them, organizational management, work ecology and emotional perception are the core categories, and individual characteristics are support categories; Organizational management, work ecology and external environment belong to external factors, which are dominant. Individual characteristics, emotional perception and value realization belong to internal factors; Organizational management and work ecology are directly controllable factors, emotional perception is indirectly controllable factors, and individual characteristics are uncontrollable factors. To improve the level of university educators' professional well-being, internal and external factors should be considered at the same time, and external factors are the key concern; core categories should be paid key attention, support categories need special attention; to adjust direct controllable factors, pay attention to indirect controllable factors and distinguish uncontrollable factors.