Professor Jiesi Guo

projects

School Principal and Teacher Wellbeing

This theme investigates the wellbeing, motivation, autonomy, job satisfaction, burnout, and retention of school leaders and teachers, including how educator wellbeing relates to school climate and student outcomes.

This theme investigates school leaders’ and teachers’ wellbeing, motivation, autonomy, burnout, job satisfaction, and retention. The work connects educator wellbeing with workplace demands and resources, school climate, policy conditions, and student outcomes.

It includes longitudinal, measurement, and predictive modelling studies of school leadership and educator working lives.

Publications in this theme

  • 2026 - Predictive modelling of Australian school principals’ turnover intentions using machine learning with random effects. Discover Computing. DOI: 10.1007/s10791-025-09838-1.
  • 2025 - Basic Psychological Needs Under Constrained Autonomy: A Substantive–Methodological Reflection and Analysis of School Leaders’ Needs from a Self-Determination Theory Perspective. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-025-10079-3.
  • 2025 - Emotionally and Cognitively Drained: Longitudinal Associations Between Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Parental Burnout From Between- and Within-Person Perspectives. Stress and Health. DOI: 10.1002/smi.70053.
  • 2022 - School autonomy policies lead to increases in principal autonomy and job satisfaction. International Journal of Educational Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102048.
  • 2022 - School principals’ mental health and well-being under threat: A longitudinal analysis of workplace demands, resources, burnout, and well-being. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. DOI: 10.1111/aphw.12423.
  • 2021 - Burning passion, burning out: The passionate school principal, burnout, job satisfaction, and extending the dualistic model of passion. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000664.
  • 2021 - Ubiquitous emotional exhaustion in school principals: Stable trait, enduring autoregressive trend, or occasion-specific state?. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000582.
  • 2020 - Job satisfaction of teachers and their principals in relation to climate and student achievement. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000409.
  • 2018 - Validating the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ-II) using set-ESEM: Identifying psychosocial risk factors in a sample of school principals. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00584.