Student Discipline and Teacher Job Satisfaction: A Dual District Analysis

• Main Authors: David Buckman, Joshua Pittman
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Georgia Southern University 2021-07-01
• Series: Georgia Educational Researcher
• Subjects: job satisfaction; student discipline; affective events theory; teacher stress
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gerjournal/vol18/iss2/2

This study aimed to contribute to the empirical literature related to student discipline's influence on teacher job satisfaction. Further, this research aimed to explore the correlation between student discipline and teacher job satisfaction while controlling for the contributing factors of job satisfaction). Also, this research study's results were interpreted through the lens of the Affective Events Theory indicating a person's emotions and behaviors for the workplace may influence their job satisfaction. An Ordinary Least Squares regression found that the correlation between student discipline and teacher job satisfaction was not statistically significant. However, the directionality of the relationship between student discipline and teacher job satisfaction was negative. By studying student discipline and teacher job satisfaction, this research determined that student discipline does harm teacher job satisfaction.