The purpose of this study is to provide the teather's in kindergarten and child care centers with information that might help to improve the educational environment by recognizing the importance and influence of organizational commitment based on teac...
The purpose of this study is to provide the teather's in kindergarten and child care centers with information that might help to improve the educational environment by recognizing the importance and influence of organizational commitment based on teacher’s resilience and perceived social support.
The probloms of this study are as follows :
1. Will teather’s resilience and the perceived social support have an effect directly on teacher’s organizational commitment?
2. Will teacher’s resilience have an effect directly the perceived social support?
3. Will teacher's resilience have an effect on their’s organizational commitment through the perceived social support indirectly?
630 teachers were answered the survey, who teach in kindergarten and child care education institution, including primary teachers and assistant teachers located in Daegu, Kyung-Buk. Measurement tool for teacher’s organizational commitment borrowed and rivised properly from Meyer and Allen(1991) to fit the teachers of kindergarten and child care institutions. Measurement tool for the perceived social support scale borrowed and rivised from that of Pak Chi-Won(1989) and Lim, Jin-Hyung(2000) to fit the teachers of kindergarten and child care institutions. Measurement of resilience is modified and used from the Resilience Quotient Test(RQT) of Reivich and Shatté(2003).
The collected data were analyzed with SPSS 19.0, a descriptive statistics, and were analyzed with AMOS 19.0, a statistics program for structural equation modeling, to test whether the hypothesized structural model fitted the collected data well.
The results found in this study were as follows :
First, the study shows that teacher’s resilience and perceived social support have an effect directly on organizational commitment that is, the higher teacher’s resilience is, the better organizational commitment is growing.
Second, teacher’s resilience has big influence on the perceived social support as well.
Third, teacher’s resilience has influence on teacher’s organizational commitment indirectly by social support.
Finally, in order to increase organizational commitment, teacher’s resilience need to be enforced and make their social support stay high.
As a result, teachers have to be strengthened for support of social emotion that helps to control of their emotional condition and social evaluation that estimates their role positive under administration system.