The correlation between teacher support and primary school students’ life and school satisfaction

Abstract

Students’ life satisfaction is a sense of subjective well-being and the capacity to effectively deal with and adapt to change and cope with environmental demands. In the last three years, students all over the world have been faced with changes in the educational system brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many schools were forced to organize online classes, and numerous teachers encountered this way of teaching for the first time. The aim of this research was to examine the perception of teacher support and its correlation with students’ school and life satisfaction. The research was carried out among 402 students of the third to eighth grade of primary school in Zagreb, Croatia. The implemented simple analysis of variance has shown higher satisfaction with teacher support, school and life among younger than among older children. Regression analyses have shown that students’ age and teacher support act as important predictors of students’ school satisfaction, which was found to be a predictor of students’ life satisfaction.