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. 2022 May 24:13:900835.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.900835. eCollection 2022.

The Relationship Between Preschool Inclusive Education Teachers' Organizational Support and Work Engagement: The Mediating Role of Teacher Self-Efficacy

Chunlan Jiao  1 , Jing Qian  1 , Huan Liu  1
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The Relationship Between Preschool Inclusive Education Teachers' Organizational Support and Work Engagement: The Mediating Role of Teacher Self-Efficacy

Chunlan Jiao et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

This study aims to explore the relationship and mechanism between the preschool inclusive education teachers' organizational support, teacher self-efficacy, and work engagement. This study adopted the organizational support scale, inclusive education efficacy scale, and work engagement scale, measured for 600 preschool inclusive education teachers, eventually obtained 568 effective questionnaires, established research model, and analyzed the data using the structural equation model (SEM). There are significantly more men (65.1%) than women (34.9), and the majority (57.6%) were public kindergarten. Organizational support significantly positively affects teachers' self-efficacy (β = 0.526, p < 0.001) and work engagement (β = 0.385, p < 0.001) in preschool inclusive education. Preschool teachers' self-efficacy has a significant positive impact on work engagement (β = 0.222, p < 0.001). Preschool teachers' self-efficacy plays a partial mediating role between organizational support and work engagement (β = 0.202, p < 0.001, CIs = [0.077, 0.305]). Organizational support not only directly affects teachers' self-efficacy and work engagement in preschool inclusive education but also indirectly affects their work engagement through preschool teachers' self-efficacy, which provides theoretical and practical guidance for the research of inclusive education.

Keywords: mediation effect; organizational support; preschool inclusive education; teacher self-efficacy; work engagement.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Research model.
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Results of the research model (***p < 0.001).
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