Teacher well-being represents a key factor in assuring the quality of learning in terms of both process and outcomes. Despite a growing literature addressing the role of job demands and job resources in teacher well-being, fewer studies have focused on the effect of individual variables. The present paper aims at developing a teacher well-being model using self-efficacy and teaching emotions such as enjoyment of teaching, anger and anxiety to explain the influence of job demands and job resources on teachers’ subjective happiness. A cross-sectional quantitative design was applied to a sample of 1092 Romanian pre-university teachers. The participants completed a self-report questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis and structural equations modelling were used to analyse the data. The findings indicate significant paths between the variables included in the model. Thus, job resources have a considerable positive influence on the enjoyment of teaching and the teachers’ subjective happiness, having a more powerful effect than personal resources, namely self-efficacy. In turn, perceived self-efficacy mediates the effect of job demands on teaching emotions and subjective well-being. It is argued that the enjoyment of teaching has a notable effect on teachers’ general well-being.
Most approaches to investigating research topics in the field of education and educational psychology are based on objectivity criteria. In some cases, subjective perceptions are considered to be biased and unreliable. The present paper draws upon a growing interest in emphasizing the use of Q-methodology in the field of education research. The article suggests that Q-methodology could be appealing for the research of digital intelligence as well as for other topics related to the area of education research. This positional paper aims to expand knowledge about the use of subjective methodologies and to set theoretical and methodological grounds to apply this specific methodology in the process of data collection and analysis. Therefore, the article depicts a corpus of scholar opinions to analyzing the concept of digital intelligence. Given that the concept of digital intelligence has a strong self-explanatory note, most of the authors preferred omnibus definitions for its enlightenment. The authors assert the need to formulate a definition of the construct rather than focusing on its dimensions. Thus, they use the Cattell–Horn–Carroll theory (CHC model) of intelligence to create the definition of digital intelligence. Based on this theoretical ground, methodological considerations and case studies are discussed in relation to applying Q-methodology to researching subjective views of students. The Q-methodology is described as an approach to providing a systematic study of the human subjectivity. Drawing on a study on digital intelligence, the utility of the method is illustrated. To expand the use of the Q-methodology, relevant examples of studies conducted by other authors are discussed.
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