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The role of authentic leadership in teachers' job satisfaction in schools with the mediating role of psychological empowerment and teachers' work participation
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Shila Khani Zaloabi   , Seyed Jamal Barkhoda * , Savareh Rashidi |
| University of Kurdistan |
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Abstract: (15 Views) |
The importance of education as a fundamental institution in training human resources and shaping the social future is obvious and undeniable.Meanwhile, teachers, as the main actors of this system, play a decisive role in achieving educational and training goals, and therefore, paying attention to their psychological, professional, and welfare conditions is an inevitable necessity.One of the most important indicators of these conditions is teachers' job satisfaction, which can have widespread consequences on the quality of educational performance, employees' mental health, organizational commitment, and even students' satisfaction and academic achievement.The present study aimed to investigate the effect of authentic leadership on teachers' job satisfaction, considering the mediating role of psychological empowerment and work engagement, among elementary school teachers in District 2 of Kermanshah city. This study is descriptive-correlational in terms of method.The statistical population included 896 elementary school teachers in this district in the academic year 2023- 2024, which 249 teachers were selected as a sample based on stratified random sampling.Data were collected using the original leadership, Job Satisfaction, psychological empowerment, and work engagement questionnaires .Data analysis was performed in the descriptive statistics section using SPSS software, and in the modeling section using the partial least squares method and Smart PLS3 software.The findings showed that authentic leadership has a positive and significant effect on teachers' job satisfaction and also significantly increases their psychological empowerment and work engagement. In addition, both psychological empowerment and work engagement played a significant mediating role in the relationship between authentic leadership and job satisfaction.The results of the structural model also indicated the favorable explanatory and predictive power of the proposed model.From a theoretical perspective, this study, by combining authentic leadership, psychological empowerment, and work engagement in an integrated model, adds to the richness of the educational leadership and organizational psychology literature in the context of Iranian education and shows that teachers' job satisfaction is not simply a consequence of individual circumstances, but rather the result of deep leadership mechanisms and empowering actions in the school.
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| Keywords: Authentic leadership, job satisfaction, Psychological empowerment, work participation, Education Organization, Elementary schools in District 2 of Kermanshah. |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
managing education in education
Received: 2025/12/31 | Accepted: 2026/02/26
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