Organizational Climate and Teachers’ Morale: Developing a Specific Tool for the School Context – A Research Project in Italy
The school context is exposed to several demanding factors relating to student and family needs and external evaluative processes of students’ learning and process outcomes, such as abilities in planning training courses and a learning environment. However, there is a need to develop tools that adeq...
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doaj-df1e82a553fb46dd9f4e5e5e031baf852020-11-25T02:42:48ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782019-09-011010.3389/fpsyg.2019.02132481378Organizational Climate and Teachers’ Morale: Developing a Specific Tool for the School Context – A Research Project in ItalyDaniela Converso0Michela Cortini1Gloria Guidetti2Giorgia Molinengo3Ilaria Sottimano4Sara Viotti5Barbara Loera6Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, ItalyDepartment of Psychological, Humanistic and Territorial Sciences, D’Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara, Chieti, ItalyDepartment of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, ItalyDepartment of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, ItalyDepartment of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, ItalyDepartment of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, ItalyDepartment of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, ItalyThe school context is exposed to several demanding factors relating to student and family needs and external evaluative processes of students’ learning and process outcomes, such as abilities in planning training courses and a learning environment. However, there is a need to develop tools that adequately support schools in making self-assessment evaluations of the internal organizational climate and teacher morale (TM). The present study proposes an Italian version of the School Organizational Health Questionnaire (SOHQ), developed by Hart et al. (2000). An Italian version of the SOHQ was deployed to 9 public primary schools in the north of Italy, and 325 cases were eventually retained as being valid for the analysis. Using confirmatory factor analysis, results highlight that a 56-item version is model fit and presents satisfactory psychometric properties, demonstrating the suitability of a latent structure composed of 12 intercorrelated factors. The present study gives further insight into increasing the use of self-assessment tools in the development of good practices and the monitoring of teacher morale within the school context.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02132/fullschool climateteachers’ moraleteachers’ wellbeingconfirmatory factor analysisadaptationvalidation |
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Daniela Converso Michela Cortini Gloria Guidetti Giorgia Molinengo Ilaria Sottimano Sara Viotti Barbara Loera Organizational Climate and Teachers’ Morale: Developing a Specific Tool for the School Context – A Research Project in Italy Frontiers in Psychology school climate teachers’ morale teachers’ wellbeing confirmatory factor analysis adaptation validation |
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Daniela Converso Michela Cortini Gloria Guidetti Giorgia Molinengo Ilaria Sottimano Sara Viotti Barbara Loera |
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Organizational Climate and Teachers’ Morale: Developing a Specific Tool for the School Context – A Research Project in Italy |
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Organizational Climate and Teachers’ Morale: Developing a Specific Tool for the School Context – A Research Project in Italy |
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Organizational Climate and Teachers’ Morale: Developing a Specific Tool for the School Context – A Research Project in Italy |
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Organizational Climate and Teachers’ Morale: Developing a Specific Tool for the School Context – A Research Project in Italy |
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Organizational Climate and Teachers’ Morale: Developing a Specific Tool for the School Context – A Research Project in Italy |
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organizational climate and teachers’ morale: developing a specific tool for the school context – a research project in italy |
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The school context is exposed to several demanding factors relating to student and family needs and external evaluative processes of students’ learning and process outcomes, such as abilities in planning training courses and a learning environment. However, there is a need to develop tools that adequately support schools in making self-assessment evaluations of the internal organizational climate and teacher morale (TM). The present study proposes an Italian version of the School Organizational Health Questionnaire (SOHQ), developed by Hart et al. (2000). An Italian version of the SOHQ was deployed to 9 public primary schools in the north of Italy, and 325 cases were eventually retained as being valid for the analysis. Using confirmatory factor analysis, results highlight that a 56-item version is model fit and presents satisfactory psychometric properties, demonstrating the suitability of a latent structure composed of 12 intercorrelated factors. The present study gives further insight into increasing the use of self-assessment tools in the development of good practices and the monitoring of teacher morale within the school context. |
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school climate teachers’ morale teachers’ wellbeing confirmatory factor analysis adaptation validation |
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https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02132/full |
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