The purpose of this study was to examine job satisfactions of preschool teachers and those who visit houses to teach infants in relation to Maslows need hierarchy theory, motivation theory. And this study examined if there was any difference in job sa...
The purpose of this study was to examine job satisfactions of preschool teachers and those who visit houses to teach infants in relation to Maslows need hierarchy theory, motivation theory. And this study examined if there was any difference in job satisfactions according to teachers background variables to find out the desire having the most effect on job satisfaction, to let teachers know what meaning their job had, and to present basic data for their positive perspective of teaching activities.
This study was conducted with 302 incumbent preschool teachers and those who visit houses to teach infants and revised and supplemented the job satisfaction test used in prior studies into the questionnaire composed of 44 questions of the equable scale, 13 questions for preschool teachers, and 16 for those who visit houses to teach infants to examine general properties, with Cronbach α, the reliability coefficient, of .73, .84, .74, .83, .65, and .72.
To compare job satisfactions of preschool teachers and those who visit houses to teach infants, t-test was performed on the average of job satisfactions of the two groups. And t-test, One-way ANOVA, Duncans Multiple Range Test were conducted to examine the difference in job satisfactions by teachers background variables.
The results of this study can be summarized as follows:
First, there was a significant difference according to the area in job satisfactions between preschool teachers and those who visit houses to teach infants: the former showed high job satisfaction than the latter in the social needs and self-realization needs; both of the groups had job dissatisfaction in the physiological needs and safety needs.
Second, according to background variables, high job satisfaction of both groups was related to married group, majors in preschool education, older teachers, more academic career, more teaching years, more income, less number of member children, and the group with more training.