Prediction of Job Satisfaction in Teachers of Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities through Altruistic and Meaningful Life Structures

This research aimed to study the relationship of altruism and meaningfulness of life with job satisfaction of teachers of students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The study population included special education teachers in Tabriz. Convenience sampling was used to select 180 of them. The Carlo et al. revised social attitudes, Minnesota job satisfaction, and Steger meaningful life scales were used to collect the data. Multiple regression analysis revealed that meaningfulness of life and altruism can significantly explain the changes related to job satisfaction. Among the predictor variables, expressive empathy, participatory empathy and the presence of meaning positively and significantly predict teachers' job satisfaction (p<0.05). Altruism and meaningfulness of life help increase teachers' job satisfaction through search for meaning, presence of meaning, expressive empathy and participatory empathy.