Although the study about the relationship of infant’s right respecting child care implementation, Job satisfaction, Self-efficacy, Job identity of child care teacher is requested, the preceding research about these is insufficient. The purpose of this study is to verify the difference and structural relation of child care teacher’s job identity and self-efficacy, job satisfaction and infant’s right respecting child care implementation according to the background variable. And This study is to verify that how does child care teacher’s job identity have an effect on infant’s right respecting child care implementation and what the mediated effect is between teacher efficacy and job satisfaction.
The first subject for this study is that “What is the difference among job identity, self-efficacy, job satisfaction and infant’s right respecting child care implementation according to background factors of child care teacher?” The second is that “What is the structural relationship among job identity, self-efficacy,, job satisfaction and infant’s right respecting child care implementation? The third is that “What is the mediated effect of self-efficacy and job satisfaction in effect on infant’s right respecting child care implementation of job identity for child care teacher?”
The subject of this study is 370 child care teachers working in national, private organization, corporation daycare center located in J-province.
The measuring methods for this study are used as follows. The Job identity measurement developed by Anderson(1977) based on the study of Hall(1968) was used for job identity study by Min Kyung Hong(2010). The measurement developed by Lim Jin Hyung(1999) based on the study of Bandura(1977) was used for teacher efficacy. The “Korean Childcare Teacher’s Job Satisfaction Scale”(KCTJSS) by Jo Sung Yeon(2011) was used for job satisfaction study. The measurement for infant’s right respecting child care implementation by Kim Jin Suk(2009) was used by editing the check-list a little.
The data gathered by statistics package SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 18.0 structural equation model program was analyzed. The data was processed using coding, re-coding, and error checking process. The frequency analysis was conducted for understanding about the demography characteristics of the subject. A coefficient of Cronbach''s α was drew for checking the internal consistency of each measurement methords through the credibility verification. The descriptive statistics was conducted for understanding of the standard about job identity, self-efficacy, job satisfaction, infant’s right respecting which are important variables. The correlation analysis was conducted for checking the relationship among job identity, self-efficacy, job satisfaction and infant’s right respecting and the structure equation model analysis was conducted to verify the mediated effect of self-efficacy and job satisfaction in the relationship between job identity and infant’s right respecting and verity the study hypothesis.
This study reached the following conclusions with these analyses.
First, Job identity, self-efficacy, job satisfaction, infant’s right respecting child care implementation according to the background factors for child care teacher showed the results that showed meaningful difference between job identity and self-efficacy in investigation according to the age. Every part in job identity, self-efficacy, job satisfaction, infant’s right respecting child care implementation showed meaningful difference according to marital status and class age. Job identity in qualification and Job identity, Job satisfaction, infant’s right respecting child care implementation in establishment showed meaningful difference. Self-efficacy, job satisfaction in the number of child per teacher and job satisfaction in working hours showed meaningful difference.
Second, The results which verify the structural relationship of job identity, self-efficacy, job satisfaction and infant’s right respecting child care implementation for child care teacher showed that job identity has a good effect on the self-efficacy, job satisfaction. Infant’s right respecting child care implementation statistically and job satisfaction has a good effect on the infant’s right respecting child care implementation.
Third, the mediated effect of job identity, self-efficacy, job satisfaction, and infant’s right respecting child care implementation was discovered when the job satisfaction, a parameter, was intervened between job identity, an exogenous variable, and infant’s right respecting child care implementation, an endogenous variable. The self-efficacy has no mediated effect statically.
The limitation of this study and a proposal for a follow-up study are as follows through the results and conclusions of this study.
First, This study was conducted for child care teachers belong to Jeollabuk-do so that there is limitation for generalizing to the whole child care teachers. The study against child care teachers in the all over the country has to be conducted.
Second, There is a possibility which child care teachers answered with the desirable behavior or thinking as child care teachers not their own opinion because this study uses the questionnaire. Thus, A follow-up study has to use the qualitative research such as individual depth interview, observation, or case study. It needs to consider the correlation by studying in depth.
Third, The continuous effort to find the method for increasing child care teacher’s job identity, teacher-efficacy, job satisfaction having effect on the infant’s right respecting implementation and variety variables, follow-up studies has to be conducted.
Fourth, This study stopped researching variable associated with job identity of child care teachers. However, A follow-up study has to be conducted about reeducation program development and application for a positive job identity formation and cultivation of child care teachers.