The Role of Iranian EFL Teachers’ Job Satisfaction in Their Job Performance: The Contribution of Benevolence Value

The investigation into the relationship between teachers' job performance and related variables in an English as a foreign language (EFL) setting has been limited. In order to fill this research vacuum, the present study investigated the mediating effect of benevolence value on the association between job satisfaction and job performance among EFL teachers. A sample of 237 EFL teachers (105 males and 132 females) from different educational institutions (universities, schools, and language institutes) was selected for this correlational survey study. The structural equation modeling (SEM) framework was utilized to analyze the data. The findings reveal that there are significant relationships between EFL teachers' job satisfaction and contextual performance (CP) and the counterproductive work behavior (CWB) dimensions of their job performance and their benevolence value and their task performance (TP) and CP. Furthermore, it is observed that EFL teachers’ benevolence value mediates the relationship between job satisfaction and their TP and CP but not the CWB dimension.