Job Satisfaction and Intern Supervision Among School Psychologist

ISBN-13: 9783639453713 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 268 str.

Angela Bloomquist

Opis

Revision with unchanged content. This national study proposed to measure the job satisfaction of full-time public school psychologists and to explore the relationship with intern supervision during the spring semester of the 2004-2005 school year. Five hundred randomly selected school psychologists were asked to complete and return a data form and a modified version of the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MMSQ). The data form was designed to provide the examiner with demographic information as well as information on estimated role function, number of interns supervised in the past, factors that may have prevented them from supervising interns, and open-ended questions regarding aspects of job satisfaction and the perceived impact of supervising interns on job satisfaction. With a 63% response rate, the job satisfaction results of the current study are generally consistent with previous investigations. Eighty-nine percent of school psychologists who participated in this study reported being very satisfied or satisfied with their jobs. Of the 20 facets of job satis faction, social service and moral values were rated the highest, indicating the greatest influence on job satisfaction, while school system policies and procedures was the lowest rated facet.

O autorze

The author holds the degree of Doctor of Education in School Psychology with a specialization in family-school relations from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). She earned the degrees of Educational Specialist in School Psychology in 1997, and Master of Education in Educational Psychology in 1995 at IUP.