Unveiling the nexus of teacher commitment and job satisfaction: insights from Ecuador's educational landscape.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the factors that determine teachers' organizational commitment and job satisfaction is fundamental in the education sector, since these two constructs are directly related to teacher effectiveness and the quality of education. Despite their importance, there is little research on these constructs in Latin America in general, and specifically in the Ecuadorian educational system. The objective of this work is thus to identify the extrinsic and intrinsic factors that influence the organizational commitment and job satisfaction of teachers in Ecuador, and to establish whether there is any relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction. To that end, an exploratory theoretical model based on the aforementioned variables is developed and tested on a sample of 6

SUBMITTER: Munoz-Fernandez GA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11837613 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature