This study aims to determine the factors influencing the efficient and successful use of LMS among university-level students. A multiperspective approach was performed using TAM3 and ISS framework to achieve the aforementioned aim. The survey was administered to 371 university students. Structural equation modeling (SEM) has been conducted to test…

As the teaching profession becomes more demanding and teachers' work conditions become increasingly challenging, recent reports have shown declining levels of teacher well-being. Past studies on teacher well-being mostly focused its associations with teacher- and school-related outcomes. However, less research has been conducted on the…

This dissertation applied an extended version of Cropanzano et al.'s (2017) theoretical framework, integrating affective events theory with leader-member exchange theory, incorporating leadership self-efficacy and workplace satisfaction. It investigated challenges of peer supervisory relationships among eight head resident advisors at a small…

Background: Due to the impact of COVID-19, loneliness rates among university students have increased. Despite research evidence on the impact of loneliness on depression among university students, only a few studies have focused on the mediating mechanism of this relationship. The investigation of the role of self-esteem and life satisfaction in…

This quantitative study explored the relationship between perceived leadership behaviors and follower satisfaction, accounting for demographic variables like gender, age, education, and role. The research collected data from 234 faculty and staff members using three surveys. The demographic survey captured information on the follower's gender,…

Based on the social cognitive model and on the psychology of working theory, this research aims to study the job and life satisfaction of apprentices, considering proactive personality, person-supervisor and person-group fit, occupational self-efficacy, and decent work as antecedents. The participants were 530 Swiss apprentices enrolled in a…

Career selection in medicine is a complex and underexplored process. Most medical career studies performed in the U.S. focused on the effect of demographic variables and medical education debt on career choice. Considering ongoing U.S. physician workforce shortages and the trilateral adaptive model of career decision making, a robust assessment of…

Purpose: This study aims to understand the role of seeking social support in the relationship between perceived helplessness, self-efficacy and satisfaction among graduate students during the pandemic, drawing upon the transactional model of stress and coping. Graduate students are composed of nontraditional students who are considered…

This study aims to examine the co-existing patterns of teachers' satisfaction with personal lives and online teaching, and the factors of these patterns during the pandemic. Self-report questionnaire was administered to 751 primary and secondary school teachers in China during the pandemic. Latent profile analysis and multiple logistic regression…

Research and policy often focus on reducing attrition from educational trajectories leading to careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), but many students change career plans "within" STEM. This study examined how changing career plans within STEM fields was associated with psychological indicators of career…

Psychology of Working theorists recommend supplementing the Decent Work Scale (DWS) with subjective investigations of decent work across different cultural contexts. Building on this, the present study developed and validated the Decent Work Triad (DWT) for assessing the subjective aspects of decent work in a sub-Saharan African context. Using a…

Many countries around the world are facing issues related to low levels of teacher wellbeing. In Australia, for example, there is a severe teacher shortage, resulting in many understaffed schools. Although this shortage is due to a confluence of factors, part of the cause stems from the fact that the support provided to teachers in recent years…

As college degrees become more common and the cost of these degrees increases, so does the debate about the worthwhileness and value of a college education generally and of specific degrees in particular. Degrees in the humanities and liberal arts are particularly questioned, as data on starting salaries and unemployment rates are sometimes used…

The aim of this study is to determine teachers' satisfaction with in-service training programs organized through distance education and their opinions about the program. In this research, the survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, was used. The sample of this study consisted of 955 teachers working in kindergartens, primary…

In this study, it was aimed to examine the relationship between physical education and sports teacher candidates' academic life satisfaction and their beliefs in the teaching profession. The population of the research consisted of 1482 physical education and sports teacher candidates studying in the Mediterranean region. The sample group consisted…