The evaluation of job satisfacion in education: an empirical study

Abstract

Job satisfaction is an emotional state resulting from a personal evaluation of one's work or experience. This document reports a study concerning the satisfaction of teachers' work, in particular a sample of 362 teachers from secondary schools of the province of Naples was examined. A questionnaire, the "Common Assessment Framework & Education" (CAF) was used for data collection, while for the processing of the same, a structural equation model was used to identify the factors that most influence satisfaction on the teaching staff work. The results obtained, following a statistical modeling, underline a significant difference between male teachers and female teachers.