Teachers' job satisfaction and students’ meta-perspectives of relationship quality: Exploring the mediating role of job performance.

Warburton, Victoria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7293-2657, Jowett, Sophia, Beaumont, Lee C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0345-4246, Felton, Luke and Bishop, Krystal C. M. (2026) Teachers' job satisfaction and students’ meta-perspectives of relationship quality: Exploring the mediating role of job performance. Teaching and Teacher Education, 181. ISSN 0742-051X

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Abstract

Teacher job satisfaction is a growing international concern, with evidence linking declining satisfaction to reduced well-being and poorer classroom functioning. Drawing on Broaden-and-Build Theory and Social Exchange Theory, job satisfaction is conceptualised as a psychological resource that supports teachers' job performance, with implications for students' perceptions of teacher-student relationship quality. We examined whether job performance helps explain the association between teachers' job satisfaction and student-reported relationship quality. Data were collected from teachers (N = 36) and students (N = 159) in six secondary schools in the East of England via a questionnaire. Job satisfaction showed indirect associations with all student-rated relationship dimensions: positively via teaching efficacy and positive affect, and negatively via workload stress. These findings highlight how students' interpretations of teachers’ enacted job performance relate to perceptions of relationship quality in the classroom.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Data availability: Ethical permission for the data collection did not include participants agreeing for sharing of data beyond use for this study.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	efficacy,positive affect,relationship quality,tsrq-q,teacher-student,workload stress,education ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3304
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Sport, Health And Education
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	10 Aug 2026 12:01
Last Modified:	10 Aug 2026 12:01
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/104075
DOI:	10.1016/j.tate.2026.105744

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