Organizational Predictors of Teachers’ Subjective Well-Being: Multinational Evidence from PISA 2022 Data

Teachers’ subjective well-being can be regarded as an indicator of their healthy functioning at work. This implies that positive organizational factors like principal instructional leadership, the climate of trust, work autonomy, and collaboration can potentially create healthy work environments for teachers. The current study examined the relationship between principal instructional leadership and teachers’ subjective well-being. The mediating roles of the climate of trust, teachers’ work autonomy, and teacher collaboration in this relationship were also examined. The geographical region was included as a control variable to check the effects of macro-cultural differences among jurisdictions that participated in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2022. This cross-sectional study employed a multinational dataset of PISA 2022. Participants included 52,823 teachers working in 17 jurisdictions in countries that participated in PISA 2022. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. Findings indicated that principal instructional leadership positively influenced teachers’ subjective well-being directly and indirectly through the climate of trust, teachers’ work autonomy, and teacher collaboration. Furthermore, the geographical region was found to significantly influence teachers’ well-being, the climate of trust, teachers’ work autonomy, and teacher collaboration. Based on the study findings, establishing team structures, building an instructional coaching system, implementing co-teaching strategies, and establishing feedback systems to provide constructive, supportive, and positive feedback to teachers were among the recommended points.