The purpose of this study is to suggest basic information to improve and activize the quality of child care services by analyzing effects of job stress and job satisfaction of nursery teachers on quality of nursery services.
For this study, the st...
The purpose of this study is to suggest basic information to improve and activize the quality of child care services by analyzing effects of job stress and job satisfaction of nursery teachers on quality of nursery services.
For this study, the study was progressed on 200 child care teachers in Youngju-Si Gyeongsanbuk-Do. Frequency analysis, t-test, ANOVA, Correlation analysis, Multiple Linear Regression, Path analysis and so on were conducted using SPSSWIN 12.0.
The main results in this study are as follows.
First, the result analyzing job stress according to background factors of child care teachers showed that the average value of stress that child care teachers in this region felt was 2.414.
Second, job satisfaction was 3.532 averagely and this was a little high level. There were only statistically significant differences in the number of classes and students that were background factors of child care teachers. In the case the number of classes was above 7 and the number of students was above 41, the job satisfaction was high and it was higher when the number of classes were students are more.
Third, the result analyzing the quality of child care service that the teachers felt was averagely 3.753 and this figure was a little high. The result analyzing the quality according to the background factors of the child care teachers showed that there were statistically significant differences when they worked corporation, the number of classes was more than 7, the number of students was 41~80 and 81~100. The child care teachers who in corporation constitutes recognized the quality of the services highly. The more the number of students were, the higher the quality of the services.
Fourth, when considering the correlation relation among stress, satisfaction and quality of the services and the correlation relation of the low factors focusing on job stress as a standard, this had negatively relation with job satisfaction and the quality of the services had a similar relation with it. As the grade of job stress, was higher, the satisfaction and the quality were lower.
Fifth, when considering the relation between the satisfaction and the quality of the services, the grade of the quality was high as much as that of the satisfaction. Indeed, the quality was high the teachers were very satisfied with their jobs.
Sixth, the result considering effects of difference of factors according to the demographic features of subjects and stress, satisfaction of the child care teachers on the quality of the service showed that the stress of the teachers the satisfaction and the satisfaction the quality of the services.
Seventh, the result analyzing the effect of job stress and job satisfaction on the quality of the services under the control demographic variables showed that the job stress was a variable which could not affect that and the job satisfaction had a statistically significant effect on it. To search for the effect relation of two variables on the quality of the services, the path analysis was conducted.
Accroding to hoyle the result of the Path analysis, the job stress as the factor that affected on the quality of the services affected the job satisfaction so indirectly affected the quality of the services. It meant that the job stress didn't affect directly the quality of the services but indirectly that through the job satisfaction. The excessive job stress was not only harmful for the individual health but also had a negative effect on the outcome and the job satisfaction. Finally it made the quality of the services lower. As teachers ware satisfied with their jobs, they were proud of when working for themselves and their organization. So the outcome of their job went up and the quality of the services was also improved.