Factors Affecting Lecturers’ Intention to Build Happy School in Viet Nam and China: A Quantitative Study

Building a "happy school" is one of the issues of concern in many countries with the goal of creating a friendly, safe and happy teaching and learning environment to motivate teachers and students to improve the quality of teaching in schools.Using a mixed research method, this study aims to identify factors affecting teachers' intention to build a happy school.A survey of 332 teachers at a number of universities in Vietnam and China.Data were processed using SPSS 25.0 and PLS-SEM 4.0 software.The research results showed that there are 4 influencing factors: people, processes, environment and support conditions.These factors explained 71.6% of the variation in the variable "teachers' intention to build a happy school".The results of this study provide evidence that Vietnamese and Chinese universities can use as a reference to strongly promote lecturers' intentions in building happy schools.