Abstract:
This study was designed to develop and validate an instrument for measuring job satisfaction among secondary school teachers in Niger State. The study sought to examine the job satisfaction level of teachers from the federal, state and private owned secondary schools and the influence of gender of the teachers on job satisfaction. The researcher utilized instrumentation research design. A questionnaire ‘’Job Satisfaction Scale for Teachers’’ (JSST) made up of 72 items was developed and administered to a population of 1400 secondary school teachers drawn randomly from Seven Education Zones of Niger State through multi- stage sampling procedure. Five research questions and two null hypotheses were used to guide the study. Data collected with the draft copy of the instrument were subjected to construct validation using factor analysis with Varimax rotation. Data were also analyzed using Cronbach Alpha (α) and descriptive statistics of t-test, mean and standard deviation. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was also used for analysis of mean job satisfaction of schools. The results showed that teachers from federally owned schools were more satisfied in their job than teachers from both the state and private schools while the state school teachers showed more job satisfaction level than their private schools counterparts. The result also exhibited a high level of validity and reliability of the instrument JSST in measuring job satisfaction of teachers. The result further revealed that gender of the teachers has no influence in determining job satisfaction of the teachers. Finally the study recommended that government and stakeholders in education should create adequate predictors of job satisfaction such as improved salaries and other fringe benefits in the secondary schools so as to promote teacher job satisfaction.
