Evaluating the Moderating Effect of Teaching Experience on the Relationship between Mental Health and Job Satisfaction

This study proposed to analyze the moderating effect of teaching experience in the relationship between mental health and job satisfaction of college teachers thus to test whether this relationship differs according to teaching experience. Using a survey method a sample of 250 teachers of government colleges of Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) have been selected; through stratified random sampling. Two standardized questionnaires, Teachers Mental health scale by Sharma and Siddiqui (2019) and job satisfaction scale byMudgil, Mubar and Bhatia (2012) were used to collect the data. In order to statistically analyze the data multiple regression analysis (hierarchical)was conducted. To test moderation, researchers in particular looked at the interaction effect of predictor (X) variable with moderator (M) and whether or not such an effect is significant in predicting criterion (Y) variable. The procedure given by Andrew Hayes (http://www.afhayes.com) was used to examine the interaction effect. In the analysis two models emerged, Model-1 (without the interaction) and Model-2 (with the interaction).The results from the model-1 indicated that mental health accounted for a significant variance in job satisfaction further from the Model-2 a significant moderating effect of teaching experience on the relationship of mental health with job satisfaction was found.