The primary purpose of this research is to find the effects of social support, emotional labor, and job stress on organizational commitment of the Montesssori early childhood education teachers.
The research questions are as follows :
1. Will Montes...
The primary purpose of this research is to find the effects of social support, emotional labor, and job stress on organizational commitment of the Montesssori early childhood education teachers.
The research questions are as follows :
1. Will Montessori early childhood education teachers’ social support, emotional labor, and job stress have a direct effect on teachers’ organizational commitment?
1-1 Will Montessori early childhood education teachers’ job stress have a direct effect on teachers’ organizational commitment?
1-2 Will Montessori early childhood education teachers’ emotional labor have a direct effect on teachers’ organizational commitment?
1-3 Will Montessori early childhood education teachers’ social support have a direct effect on teachers’ organizational commitment?
2. Will Montessori early childhood education teachers’ social support have a direct effect on teachers’ job stress?
2-1 Will Montessori early childhood education teachers’ emotional labor have a direct effect on teachers’ job stress?
2-2 Will Montessori early childhood education teachers’ social support have a direct effect on teachers’ job stress?
3. Will Montessori early childhood education teachers’ social support have a direct effect on teachers’ emotional labor?
536 teachers who teach in Montessori early childhood educational institution located in Seoul, Daegu, Busan and near these cities were answered the survey.
Measurement tool for teachers’ organizational commitment borrowed, translated, and revised properly from Meyer and Allen(1991) to be fit for the teachers’ of early childhood educational institutions. Measurement tool for social support scale borrowed and revised from that of Pak Chi-Won(1989) and Lim, Jin-Hyung(2000) to be fit for the teachers’ of early childhood educational institutions. Measurement tool for teachers’ emotional labor used from the Lee, Jin-Haw(2007)’s revision of Gilstrap(2005), which used ELS(Grendy, 2000). Measurement tool for the teachers’ job stress used from the Gu, Eun-Mi(2004)’s revision of Clark(1980), which used D’Arienzo(1981).
The collected data were analyzed by SPSS 19.0, a descriptive statistics, and were analyzed by AMOS 20.0, 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 Montessori early childhood education teachers’ job stress has a bad effect directly on teachers’ organizational commitment.
Second, the study shows that Montessori early childhood education teachers’ deep acting has a direct effect on teachers’ organizational commitment but surface acting dosen’t have an effect on teacher’s organizational commitment.
Third, the study shows that Montessori early childhood education teachers’ social support has a direct effect on teacher’s organizational commitment. The Higher social support is the more the teachers’ organizational commitment is.
Fourth, the study shows that Montessori early childhood education teachers’ surface acting has a direct effect on teachers’ job stress, but deep acting has no effect on teachers’ job stress.
Fifth, the study shows that Montessori early childhood education teachers’ social support has a direct effect on teachers’ job stress. That is the more social support means the less job stress of the teachers’.
Finally, the study shows that Montessori early childhood education teachers’ social support has a direct effect on teachers’ emotional labor. In other words, many social support has the effect that deep acting is increased and surface acting is reduced.
In conclusion, Montessori early childhood education teachers’ social support, emotional labor and job stress have direct effects on teachers’ organizational commitment.