This study aims to look into the correlation between early
childhood teachers' social support, emotional labor, burnout, teachers-young children interaction, and young children's emotion regulation strategies; and investigate the pathway where early c...
This study aims to look into the correlation between early
childhood teachers' social support, emotional labor, burnout, teachers-young children interaction, and young children's emotion regulation strategies; and investigate the pathway where early childhood teacher's social support influences the young children's emotion regulation strategies through emotional labor, burnout, interaction between teachers and young children, and the mediating role of early childhood teachers' emotional labor, burnout, teachers-young children interaction between teachers'
social support and young children's emotion regulation.
The following problems will be dealt with in thus study.
First, what is the pathway where early childhood teacher's
social support influences the young children's emotion regulation strategies?
Second, is there any mediating effect of early childhood
teachers' emotional labor, burnout, and teachers-young children interaction between teachers' social support and young children's emotion regulation?
This study conducted a questionnaire survey targeting 300
early childhood teachers who were teaching 3-year old, 4-year old and 5-year old young children at preschools and day care centers in Seoul, and used 200 reponses as the data for the final analysis. For the reliability of the questionnaires, Cronbach's α coefficients were calculated.
The data used in this study was statistically processed
using SPSS WIN 18.0 and AMOS 18.0. To investigate the
characteristic variables, a frequency analysis and a descriptive statistical analysis were conducted. In addition, to investigate the correlation between early childhood teachers' social support, emotional labor, burnout, teachers-young children, and young children' emotion regulations strategies, a correlation analysis was conducted. Finally, to investigate the pathway where early
childhood teacher's social support influenced the young children's emotion regulation strategies through emotional labor, burnout, teachers-young children interaction, and the mediating role of childhood teachers' emotional labor, burnout, teachers-young children interaction between teachers' social support and young children's emotion regulation, the structural model was analyzed using AMOS 18.0.
The findings from this study can be summarized as follows.
First, as a result of the analysis of the correlation between
early childhood teachers 'social support, emotional labor, and teachers-young children interaction and young children's emotion regulation strategies, the higher the teachers' social support, the higher the natural behavior, internal behavior, and teachers-young children interaction among the types of emotional labors. In addition, the higher the social support, the lower the aggressive
strategies and avoidance strategies among young children's emotion regulation strategies.
Second, as a result of the analysis of the structural model
to investigate early childhood teachers' social support, emotional labor, burnout, teachers-young children interaction and the pathway between young children's emotion regulation strategies, early childhood teachers' social supports influenced young children's emotion regulation strategies through early childhood
teachers' emotional labor, teachers-young children interaction, and burnout. In addition, early childhood teachers' social supports influenced young children s emotion regulation strategies through emotional labor and burnout as media. This study has a significance in that the study has identified the correlation between early childhood teachers' social support, emotional labor, burnout, teachers and young children interaction, and young children's emotion regulation strategies;
and the pathway where childhood teacher's social support
influenced the young children's emotion regulation strategies through emotional labor, burnout, teachers-young children interaction through a structural equation model for the first time in the academic circle in Korea. In addition, having identified the importance of early childhood teachers and their mediating effect, this study is expected to suggest many implications to the follow-up studies. It is expected that more specific plans to mitigate the negative emotional labors-superficial emotional labor and burnout for teachers in the classes will be sought after through the social supports to them, which will help teachers to
let young children develop emotionally in the classes.