This research covers the correlation of the professional knowledge of daycare center teachers' and their job stress. The purpose of this paper is to enhance the quality of children's education by improving professionalism and their job stress environ...
This research covers the correlation of the professional knowledge of daycare center teachers' and their job stress. The purpose of this paper is to enhance the quality of children's education by improving professionalism and their job stress environment of daycare center teachers'.
For the above purpose, this research investigated 214 who daycare center teachers' workin the Iksan city nusery institutions. Iskan nursery institution record was referred for this research. There is the total of 264 nursery insitutions in the city of Iksan. The subject of the research was 214 teachers working in 70 nursery insitutions that operate daycare center. Currently, there are 134 teachers in 10 public nursery institutions, 61 teachers in 20 corporate nursery institutions, 69 teachers in 20 civil nursery institutions, and 50 teachers in 20 family institutions. For the investigation, questionaire was used. For the rearch problem analysis, SPSS/PC 14.0 program was used. In order to uderstand the general background of the research subject, frequency and percentile were calculated. In order to certify research problem 1 and 2, t-certification, one variable analysis and Duncan post censorship were carrried out. Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient analysis was carried out in order to certify the research problem 3.
The following research problems were chosen for this paper.
1. What is the professional knowledge of daycare center teachers' and does the background variable (individual internal variable, individual external variable) differentiates it?
2. How is the daycare center teachers' job stress and does the teacher's background variable (individual internal variable, individual external variable) differentiates it?
3. What is the correlation between the professional knowledge of nursery daycare center teachers' and job stress?
Based on the results of this research the following conclusion can be made.
The professional knowledge of daycare center teachers' was affected by on the marital status, age, career, and job stress , but it was not affected by the teacher's major, pay, and the number of students in class. The job stress was not affected by the marital status, age, career, and pay but it was affected by the teacher's major, the types of in sitution, and the number of students in class. There is a general static correlation between the professional knowledge of daycare center teachers' professional knowledge and the job stress.
The meaning of this research is to provide alternatives to enhance the professionalism of daycare center teachers' and decrease the job stress.