The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between teacher's efficacy and job stress and the effects of educare center teacher's teaching efficacy on job stress. For this purpose, the research questions were proposed as follows;
1. W...
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between teacher's efficacy and job stress and the effects of educare center teacher's teaching efficacy on job stress. For this purpose, the research questions were proposed as follows;
1. What is educare center teacher's teaching efficacy ?
1-1. What is the general tendency of educare center teacher's teaching efficacy ?
1-2. Is there any difference in the educare center teacher's teaching efficacy according to demographic variables(age, educational level, monthly income) ?
1-3. Is there any difference in the educare center teacher's teaching efficacy according to job related variables (the type of child care center, work experience, work hours) ?
2. What is educare center teacher's job stress?
2-1. What is the general tendency of educare center teacher's job stress?
2-2. Is there any difference in the educare center teacher's job stress according to demographic variables(age, educational level, monthly income) ?
2-3. Is there any difference in the educare center teacher's job stress according to job related variables (the type of child care center, work experience, work hours) ?
3. What are the effects of educare center teacher's teaching efficacy on job stress according to general factors?
3-1. what is the relationship between teacher's efficacy and job stress?
3-2. What are the effects of organizational climate and teacher's sense of efficacy on occupational stress?
A questionnaire was used to know the educare center teachers' teaching efficacy and job stress in this study. The subjects of this study were 200 teachers at the public, private, or home child-care centers in Pyeongtaek, Songtan and Osan.
To analyze the general characteristics of subjects, frequency analysis and descriptives were used ; In order to find the difference of educare center teacher's teaching efficacy and job stress according to demographic variables and job related variables, ANOVA was executed. The tools for investigating the influences on educare center teacher's job stress, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis were used.
The results of this study were as follows:
First. educare center teacher's teaching efficacy level was a little higher than the average. The mean score of general belief of teaching efficacy was a little higher than the personal belief of teaching efficacy.
Second, educare center teacher's job stress level show to be lower than average. Job related stress is the highest. Next is, the child related stress, personal related stress.
Third, teaching efficacy significantly influenced on the job stress.
The result indicated the higher educare center teacher's belief of efficacy was, the lower the job stress was. While general teaching efficacy was not associated with teaching efficacy, personal teaching efficacy was significantly related to teaching efficacy. The result of analyzing the effects of educare center teacher's teaching efficacy on job stress showed personal teaching efficacy had a strong influence on job stress. In detail, there was a significant negative correlation between personal teaching efficacy and job stress. Among the general factors such as the level of education, monthly income, work hours had significant influence on job stress. Therefore, the higher the level of education, the less monthly income, the longer work hours, it appeared that educare center teacher's job stress is higher.
Key Words: teachers' job stress, teachers' belief of teaching efficacy, educare center teacher.