This study originated from the hypothesis that claims that the quality of education for preschoolers is ultimately enhanced and given positive influence upon teacher efficacy, teacher-preschooler interaction, and job satisfaction by which the early ch...
This study originated from the hypothesis that claims that the quality of education for preschoolers is ultimately enhanced and given positive influence upon teacher efficacy, teacher-preschooler interaction, and job satisfaction by which the early childhood institution makes a steady effort to promote a sense of happiness through self-development by having an interest in happiness and self-identity of early childhood physical education teachers who are in charge of physical education classes. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to elicit theoretical rationality of the effects in teachers' early childhood physical education happiness and self-identity on teacher efficacy, teacher-preschooler interaction, and job satisfaction.
To achieve the objective of this study, a questionnaire method was adopted with a social scientific research method. Statistical technique for eliciting a result was used SPSS pc+18.0 program. A specific data-processing method ensured the data integrity through verifying validity and reliability of a measurement tool. One-way ANOVA was carried out through Tukey's post-test. Pearson's correlation analysis and stepwise multiple regression analysis were carried out. The statistical significance level verified the hypothesis at the level of p<.05. According to this, the following conclusions were obtained.
First, the happiness, self-identity and job satisfaction in teachers who work at national and public early childhood institutions were high. The happiness and teacher efficacy of the married teachers were high. However, a partially, slightly low difference was shown depending on educational career and academic background.
Second, the effort to increase self-identity - like stability and self-development as a job for raising teachers' early childhood physical education happiness improved the efficacy as a teacher and the interaction with preschoolers and cause of job satisfaction.
Third, the teachers' early childhood physical education happiness, self-identity, teacher efficacy, teacher-preschooler interaction and job satisfaction have high correlation in a positive direction. The relationship among variables is mutually causing a change in a positive direction.
Fourth, what increases teachers' happiness through physical education instruction, which enhances preschoolers' emotional and sensitive development, becomes a medium of promoting interaction between teachers and preschoolers. Also, it suggests that the higher self-identity level in early childhood physical education teachers leads to a higher teacher efficacy and a higher interaction between teachers and preschoolers as well. Especially, high teacher efficacy and more interaction between preschoolers and teachers led to having arranged an opportunity of improving the occupational satisfaction as an early childhood physical education teacher.
Fifth, in the causality of the all the variables, the happiness, rather than self-identity, functioned as a variable for increasing teacher efficacy and interaction with preschoolers.
Accordingly, the theoretical foundation came to be formed as saying that which increases a teacher’s efficacy and the teacher-preschooler interaction in early childhood physical education teachers, which has a high influence upon qualitative level of early childhood physical education program, is happiness, and that the interaction gets higher when the self-identity functions as the additional variable here.