Author(s)

Mina Rastegar, Sholeh Moradi

Department of English Language and Literature, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among Iranian EFL teachers’ job satisfaction, self-efficacy, and their spiritual well-being. For this purpose, Job Satisfaction Survey (Spector, 1994), Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale (Tschannen-Moran & Woolfolk Hoy, 2001), and Spiritual Well-being Scale (Paloutzian & Ellison, 1982) were used to collect data. The statistical procedure of Pearson Product Moment Correlation was utilized using SPSS version 21. The results of the statistical test yielded a significant negative relationship between teachers’ job satisfaction and their spiritual well-being and there was no relationship between their job satisfaction and self-efficacy. Moreover, there was not any significant relationship between teachers’ sense of efficacy and spiritual well-being.

Job Satisfaction, Teachers’ Self-Efficacy, Spiritual Well-Being

Rastegar, M. and Moradi, S. (2016) On the Relationship between EFL Teachers’ Job Satisfaction, Self-Efficacy, and Their Spiritual Sense of Well-Being. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 6, 1-12. doi: 10.4236/ojml.2016.61001.