...Orly Shapira‐Lishchinsky; Gamal Ishan Purpose This study aims to develop and validate a measure of a specific attitude toward teachers’ absenteeism that predicts this behavior more accurately than other general measures of job attitudes. Design/methodology/approach Participants were 443...

... behavior. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Ethics Affective psychology Absenteeism Teachers Israel Work absence is a conspicuous problem in educational institutions. In 2000, pay for absent teachers was estimated as $2 billion per year in the USA, and €300 million in the UK...

... in the Israeli public education system (N=51,916) was studied. Hierarchical regression analysis was used. Findings Prior absenteeism, age, education, and supervisory position were found to be significant predictors of absenteeism frequency, accounting for about 50 percent of the variance in absence...