The purpose of this study is to inquiry early childhood teacher's well-being and commitment, investigate the difference between early childhood teacher's well-being and commitment according to teacher's general factors, and analyze on the relationship...
The purpose of this study is to inquiry early childhood teacher's well-being and commitment, investigate the difference between early childhood teacher's well-being and commitment according to teacher's general factors, and analyze on the relationship between well-being and commitment of teachers who are responsible for social parenting in early childhood educational field.
For this study, study questions are as follows.
1. How is the well-being of early childhood teachers, and are there any differences in well-being according to teacher's factors(marriage status, educational background, age, career, organizational types, scale of organization, working hours, monthly income)?
2. How is the commitment of early childhood teachers, and are there any differences in commitment according to teacher's factors(educational background, age, career, organizational types, scale of organization, working hours, monthly income)?
3. How is the relationship between early childhood teacher's well-being and commitment?
Subjects for this study were 386 teachers from day care centers located in Seoul and Kyungki area, a survey was conducted for them. As a measurement tool, Psychological Well-Being Scale(PWBS) developed by Ryff(1989) was used for analyzing well-being, and the measurement tool used in a study of Hong Chang Nam(2005) was used for analyzing commitment. 329 data was collected, and t-test, one-way ANOVA, correlation analysis were used to analyze the data.
The results of this study were as follows:
First, the well-being level of early childhood teacher was higher than average, they perceived well-being according to subarea as positive relation with others, purpose in life, personal growth, self acceptance, environmental mastery, autonomy. The well-being of early childhood teacher revealed differences according to marriage status, age, organizational types, and scale of organization.
Second, the commitment level of early childhood teacher was high. In subarea, the level of child commitment was highest, and next, the level of teaching commitment and early childhood educational organization commitment was high. Early childhood teacher commitment revealed differences according to marriage status, scale of organization, age and career.
Third, there was a positive correlation between early childhood teacher's well-being and commitment. There were positive correlations among the subarea of teacher's well-being and commitment except the correlation between autonomy of well-being factors and early childhood educational organization commitment.
In summary, there is close correlation between early childhood teacher's well-being and commitment. It means that the well-being level of early childhood teacher should be improved to increase teacher commitment. Increasing early childhood teacher's well-being raise the quality of early childhood education including teacher themselves. Furthermore, it has a positive effect children at starting point of education. Therefore, the results of this study suggest that various programs for improving well-being of teachers who are responsible for children will be developed and applied.