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Einar M. Skaalvik is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research primarily centers on topics related to psychology and social sciences, with a significant focus on social psychology, education, organizational behavior, human resource management, and safety research.

The scientist's recent publications cover a variety of angles within education and organizational behavior, particularly emphasizing teacher-related constructs, motivation, job satisfaction, and stress management. Selected recent papers include:

  • Collective teacher culture: exploring an elusive construct and its relations with teacher autonomy, belonging, and job satisfaction (2021, Social Psychology of Education)
  • Collective teacher culture and school goal structure: Associations with teacher self-efficacy and engagement (2023, Social Psychology of Education)
  • Teacher Stress and Coping Strategies-The Struggle to Stay in Control (2021, Creative Education)
  • Shared goals and values in the teaching profession, job satisfaction and motivation to leave the teaching profession: The mediating role of psychological need satisfaction (2023, Social Psychology of Education)

Frequent co-authorship has occurred with Sidsel Skaalvik, with whom Einar M. Skaalvik has collaborated on multiple occasions.

Publications are predominantly found in the venue Social Psychology of Education, which hosts three of their recent papers, and Creative Education, contributing one publication.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, key subfields of focus are:

  • Social Psychology
  • Education
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Safety Research

The core research topics addressed by Einar M. Skaalvik comprise:

  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Stress and Burnout Research
  • Teacher Professional Development and Motivation

Best Publications

  • Academic Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy: How Different Are They Really?

    Mimi Bong;Einar M. Skaalvik

  • Dimensions of Teacher Self-Efficacy and Relations with Strain Factors, Perceived Collective Teacher Efficacy, and Teacher Burnout.

    Einar M. Skaalvik;Sidsel Skaalvik

  • Teacher self-efficacy and teacher burnout: A study of relations

    Einar M. Skaalvik;Sidsel Skaalvik

  • Teacher Job Satisfaction and Motivation to Leave the Teaching Profession: Relations with School Context, Feeling of Belonging, and Emotional Exhaustion.

    Einar M. Skaalvik;Sidsel Skaalvik

  • Self-enhancing and self-defeating ego orientation: Relations with task and avoidance orientation, achievement, self-perceptions, and anxiety.

    Einar M. Skaalvik

  • Teacher self-efficacy and perceived autonomy: relations with teacher engagement, job satisfaction, and emotional exhaustion.

    Einar M. Skaalvik;Sidsel Skaalvik

  • Does School Context Matter? Relations with Teacher Burnout and Job Satisfaction.

    Einar M. Skaalvik;Sidsel Skaalvik

  • Job Satisfaction, Stress and Coping Strategies in the Teaching Profession-What Do Teachers Say?.

    Einar M. Skaalvik;Sidsel Skaalvik

  • Teacher Stress and Teacher Self-Efficacy as Predictors of Engagement, Emotional Exhaustion, and Motivation to Leave the Teaching Profession

    Einar M. Skaalvik;Sidsel Skaalvik

  • Academic achievement and self-concept: An analysis of causal predominance in a developmental perspective.

    Einar M. Skaalvik;Knut A. Hagtvet

  • Principal self-efficacy: relations with burnout, job satisfaction and motivation to quit

    Roger A. Federici;Einar M. Skaalvik

  • Job Demands and Job Resources as Predictors of Teacher Motivation and Well-Being.

    Einar Melgren Skaalvik;Sidsel Skaalvik

  • Gender differences in math and verbal self-concept, performance expectations, and motivation

    Sidsel Skaalvik;Einar M. Skaalvik

  • Adolescents’ Perceptions of Masculine and Feminine Values in Sport and Physical Education: A Study of Gender Differences

    Anne Torhild Klomsten;Herb W. Marsh;Einar M. Skaalvik

  • Physical Self-Concept and Sports: Do Gender Differences Still Exist?

    Anne Torhild Klomsten;Einar M Skaalvik;Geir Arild Espnes

  • Motivated for teaching? Associations with school goal structure, teacher self-efficacy, job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion

    Einar M. Skaalvik;Sidsel Skaalvik

  • Internal and External Frames of Reference for Academic Self-Concept

    Einar M. Skaalvik;Sidsel Skaalvik

  • Mathematics achievement and self-efficacy: Relations with motivation for mathematics

    Einar M. Skaalvik;Roger A. Federici;Robert M. Klassen

  • Relations Among Achievement, Self-Concept, and Motivation in Mathematics and Language Arts: A Longitudinal Study

    Einar M. Skaalvik;Harald Valås

  • A Test of the Internal/External Frame of Reference Model at Different Levels of Math and Verbal Self-Perception

    Einar M. Skaalvik;Richard J. Rankin

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Klassen
Robert M. Klassen University of York
Mimi Bong
Mimi Bong Korea University
Allan Wigfield
Allan Wigfield University of Maryland, College Park

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