شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

The purpose of this study is to focus on teacher job satisfaction in Saudi Arabia. This quantitative study aims to identify the relationship between teachers' perceptions of distributed leadership and job satisfaction in public secondary schools in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. It additionally tries to find whether there is a difference between female and male teachers in job satisfaction. A multiple linear regression model was applied to find the relationships between variables. Results propose a significant relationship between distributed leadership and teachers' job satisfaction. Then, a t-test was applied to examine the difference between male and female teachers in job satisfaction. Results show that there is a difference between males and females in their satisfaction about teaching. Females as compared to males had statistically significantly higher scores on perceptions about teaching. (Author's abstract)