Improving teacher career satisfaction through distributed leadership in China: The parallel mediation of teacher empowerment and organizational commitment

Hao Yao and Lichao Ma

International Journal of Educational Development, 2024, vol. 104, issue C

Abstract: Based on a survey of 522 primary and secondary school teachers in mainland China, the study explored the effect of distributed leadership on teacher career satisfaction, and examined the mediation of teacher empowerment and organizational commitment using structural equation modeling. It was found that the implementation of distributed leadership could exert a significant positive impact on teacher career satisfaction in the Chinese cultural context. In addition, distributed leadership could positively influence career satisfaction indirectly through the full mediation of teacher empowerment and organizational commitment, and teacher empowerment had a greater mediating effect than organizational commitment.

Keywords: Distributed leadership; Teacher career satisfaction; Teacher empowerment; Organizational commitment; Structural equation model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2023.102960

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