Abstract:
The role of teachers is very important for the success of students' education.
Additionally, it’s essential to focus on their job satisfaction. Here, teachers gain
confidence in self-efficacy to develop new methods for conducting more effective
teaching and rooting for each other's improvement. Teachers’ job satisfaction and
self-efficacy are essential to achieving better student performance. This study's main
objective is to investigate the impact of self-efficacy on job satisfaction among
government school teachers in Sri Lanka. A structured questionnaire was distributed
to 371 government school teachers in the Kalutara area selected via a multistage
cluster sampling technique. This study used a quantitative approach. The data was
analysed using Factor Analysis and Binary Logistic Regression with the support of
SPSS. The Norwegian Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale was applied to evaluate teachers'
self-efficacy. The results imply that females were more satisfied with their jobs than
males. The age range of 36- 45 years respondents recorded the highest percentage of
satisfaction. And the majority of the teachers were married. Binary logistic
regression has found that keeping discipline was a significant factor in teacher's job
satisfaction. However, other components, namely Instruction, adapting education to
individual students’ needs, coping with changes and challenges, and cooperating
with colleagues and parents, did not significantly impact teacher's job satisfaction.
The finding of the study suggests to give training sessions to control classroom
dynamics and maintain discipline for the teachers. Furthermore, the government
should pay more attention to those programs.
