Teaching Experience,Job Security,and Job Satisfaction among Secondary School Teachers in South Africa

Abstract

The purpose was to examine the extent to which years of teaching experience may be related to self-reported job satisfaction in groups of men and women, who had less than eight years of teaching secondary school or who had more than eight years. 62 teachers with longer teaching experience (M age = 39.0 yr., SD = 3.9) rated their job satisfaction higher than those who had less experience (M age = 37.4 yr., SD = 5.9). 53% of teachers rated security high and 35% as average, so most felt secure in their work.