The Effect of Child Care Teacher''s Job Stress on Burnout
- Verification of Mediating Effect of Turnover Intention and Moderating Effect of Social Support -


Park Soo kyoung
Major in Child Welfare and Early Childhood Education
The Graduate School
Woosuk University
Supervised by Professor Ha Seung min

The purpose of this study is to confirm the moderating effect of the social support between the mediating effect of the turnover intention and the job stress and job burnout when the job stress of the child care teacher influences the job burnout.

The subjects of this study were 600 child care teachers working in national public child care center, private day care center, corporate day care center, home day care center, and workplace day care center in Jeollabuk-do. The survey tools were job stress scale, job burnout scale, turnover intention scale and social support scale.

The results of this study are as follows.
First, the higher the job stress of child care teachers, the higher the job burnout and the turnover intention of child care teachers, but the lower the social support.
Second, it is confirmed that turnover intention is a significant partial parameter in job stress and burnout. In other words, turnover intention affects job stress and indirectly affects job burnout.
Third, in the relationship between job stress and job burnout, the moderating effect of the social support is selectively showed only for some sub-factors such as lack of director''s leadership and administrative support and emotional support, overwork and evaluation support, lack of director''s leadership and administrative support and evaluation support, parents and emotional support, lack of director''s leadership and administrative support and information support, parents and evaluative support. However, depending on the type of facility, social support did not play a role as a control variable in workplace day care centers and home day care centers.

This study suggests that method should be prepared to reduce job stress which affects job burnout.

And it is suggested that method should be needed to strengthen social support identified as the moderating variable in the relationship between job stress and job burnout.

Finally, the study suggests the necessity of supplementary research and further research.