Beginning Teacher Job Satisfaction: Knowledge and Interpersonal Relationship

This study examined how teacher knowledge, interpersonal relationship, and the interaction of teacher knowledge and interpersonal relationship contributed to teacher job satisfaction. Fifty percent of the participants were randomly selected from all the teachers who participated in the 2012 teaching and learning international survey (TALIS) with no more than 5 years of teaching experience. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were conducted. The results were cross-validated. The findings showed that decision participation, colleague support and teacher-student relationship contributed significantly to teacher job satisfaction.