PAY SATISFACTION, EMOTIONAL LABOUR AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN EMOHUA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, OF RIVERS STATE
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The need to ensure the wellbeing of teachers given their roles in the teaching pedagogy led to this study on the influence of pay satisfaction and emotional labour on the psychological wellbeing of teachers in secondary schools in Emohua local government area of Rivers State. Given the above, two research questions, objectives and hypotheses were raised to guide the study. Literature to understand what emotional labour, pay satisfaction and psychological wellbeing were exhausted. Given this justification, the affective events theory was used. Methodologically, the descriptive survey design became imperative for the study. The sample consisted of 350 teachers. The simple percentage, regression and ANOVA were used for data analysis. Based on the analysis, the first result stating that F (1, 348) = 26.871, p <0.05, implies there is significant relationship as the p-value is less than the 0.05 level of significance. Therefore, Pay satisfaction significantly predicted the psychological well-being of teachers in Emohua LGA of Rivers State. Also, it was found that the regression analysis F (1, 348) = 59.51, p <0.05, showed that emotional labour significantly influence the psychological well-being of teachers in Emohua LGA of Rivers State. Given the above result, the study recommended the need for teachers to be well paid or ensure pay satisfaction as such effort by the school authorities can aid the teachers because they will notice that their efforts and pay is commensurate.
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