Abstract:

Primary education teachers in Indonesia have a heavy responsibility to grow the character of the nation’s generation. In fact, not all of the primary education teachers get the right to a certification allowance covered by the education foundation. This problem causes the feelings of injustice that have an impact on a sense of job dissatisfaction for teachers. This research test and analyze the relationship pattern of Social Support, Work Stress, and Job Satisfaction on Non-Certified Primary Education Teacher who work in one of the Foundation for Primary Education in Sidoarjo Regency, East Java Province, Indonesia. The type of this research is survey with population from the entire primary education teacher who has not been certified (non-certification). The sample is conducted by purposive simple random sampling technique with 60 respondents. The analysis technique by using SmartPLS (Partial Least Square). The research result shows that work stress of teacher has positive and significant effect toward work satisfaction. Social support does not have a role to mediate the relationship between work stress and work satisfaction of the teacher. The recommendation of this research is foundation and government institution of primary education should improve the well-being of non-certified primary education teachers to reduce work stress through improving financial or non-financial well-being.