Abstract
Objectives The purposes of this study were to investigate the influences from the motivation for choosing teaching professional(MCT) and self-directed learning (SDL) on university satisfaction (US) among the university students for elementary education, and to test the mediating effect of SDL in the relationships between MCT and US.
 Methods Adopting on-line survey, a national university students surveilled and a data set with 248 participants were produced. Descriptive statistics, reliability, correlations and multiple regressions were conducted with SPSS ver. 21, and then Sobel Test was conducted with proposed conceptual model.
 Results Gender, age bracket, active and material MCT, and SDL were significantly related to US. Also, gender and age bracket were the significant exogenous influencing factors on MCT. Female students and students’ age group under 21 were more likely to report higher levels of US, Both the active MCT and passive MCT influenced the US as well as the levels of SDL. In this study, mediation effect of SDL on the relationships between MCT and US was tested showed significant direct and indirect effects from MCT on US via SDL.
 Conclusions Based on the results, this study suggest male students and students aged over 21 were at risk group in terms of US, and educational universities should provide intervening programs to promote US of those groups. Promoting active MCT and SDL could be another effective approaches to increase US among educational university students
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