AUTHOR=Song Zhanmei , Pan Baocheng , Wang Youli 

TITLE=Can Trait Mindfulness Improve Job Satisfaction? The Relationship Between Trait Mindfulness and Job Satisfaction of Preschool Teachers: The Sequential Mediating Effect of Basic Psychological Needs and Positive Emotions

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=12

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.788035

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.788035

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p><bold>Objective:</bold> This study aims to explore the relationship between basic psychological needs and positive emotions of preschool teachers between trait mindfulness and job satisfaction.</p><p><bold>Methods:</bold> Three hundred and ninety-eight preschool teachers were tested with mindfulness attention awareness scale, basic psychological needs scale, positive emotion scale, and job satisfaction scale.</p><p><bold>Results:</bold> Preschool teachers trait mindfulness can predict job satisfaction (<italic>β</italic> = 0.265, <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0. 001). Preschool teachers trait mindfulness has an indirect impact on job satisfaction through basic psychological needs (<italic>β</italic> = 0.059, <italic>p</italic> = 0.002), and preschool teachers trait mindfulness has an indirect impact on job satisfaction through positive emotions (<italic>β</italic> = 0.123, <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0. 001). In addition, basic psychological needs and positive emotions play a sequential intermediary role between preschool teachers trait mindfulness and job satisfaction (<italic>β</italic> = 0.017, <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0. 001).</p><p><bold>Conclusion:</bold> Basic psychological needs and positive emotions play a sequential mediating role between preschool teachers trait mindfulness and job satisfaction, and this sequential mediating effect accounts for a high proportion of the total effect.</p>