subjective Well- being and Its Relation to Affiliation Motivation Among Preparatory School Teachers

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the relationship between subjective well-being and Affiliation motivation among middle school teachers. To achieve this goal, the researcher adopted the subjective well-being scale of Pontin and others (Pontin et al, 2013), which in its final form consisted of (24) items, distributed on three dimensions (physical health and well-being, psychological well-being, relationships), as well as the adoption of the Hill Affiliation  Motivation Scale ( Hill, 1987), which in its final form consisted of(26) items, divided into four dimensions (Positive stimulation, social comparison, emotional support ,Attention) and after verifying the psychometric properties of the two scales, they were applied to the applied research sample The total (550) teachers and schools were chosen by the stratified random method, and after data collection and processing statistically using appropriate statistical methods, it was found that there is a positive direct relationship between subjective well-being and the motivation of Affiliation among middle school teachers.