Teaching autonomy and teachers' turnover intentions under the labor process theory perspective: A moderated mediation model of work alienation and professional identity
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Based on the labor process theory, this study examines the effects of teaching autonomy on teachers' turnover intentions in mainland China and reveals the mediating role of work alienation and the moderating role of professional identity. Findings from a survey of 540 Chinese teachers showed that teaching autonomy was negatively correlated with teachers' turnover intentions. Work alienation mediated the relationship between teaching autonomy and teachers' turnover intentions. Professional identity played a moderating role in the relationship between teaching autonomy and teachers' turnover intentions mediated by work alienation, moderating the first half of the path of the mediation model.
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Teaching and Teacher Education is an international journal concerned primarily with teachers, teaching, and/or teacher education situated in an international perspective and context. The journal focuses on early childhood through high school (secondary education), teacher preparation, along with higher education concerning teacher professional development and/or teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education is a multidisciplinary journal committed to no single approach, discipline, methodology, or paradigm. The journal welcomes varied approaches (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods) to empirical research; also publishing high quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Manuscripts should enhance, build upon, and/or extend the boundaries of theory, research, and/or practice in teaching and teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education does not publish unsolicited Book Reviews.