보육교사의 아동학대 인식과 신고의무에 대한 태도

Educare Center Teacher's Attitudes toward Child Abuse and Child Abuse Reporting

The purpose of this study was to find out the perception of child abuse and attitudes toward reporting among educare center teachers who were specified as the mandatory reporters of child abuse in Child Welfare Law amended in 2000. The subjects of this study were 312 preschool teachers, 231 from urban and 81 from rural area. Self-administered social survey method was employed. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean(M), standard deviation(SD), t-test, Chi-Square, Person correlation using SPSSWIN program. The results are as follow; (1) Educare center teachers were highly perceptive of child abuse and quite alert to the occurrence of child abuse. Preschool teachers in the rural area tended to experience higher number of child abuse occurrence than those who in the urban area. (2) Significantly low reporting rate was observed. While 29.8% of educare center teachers had experiences of child abuse observance, only two teachers among them had reported to the authority. The reasons appeared that the most of educare center teachers are not aware of the proper timing for reporting and they don't have the correct information concerning child abuse reporting. Only 26.9% of the subjects, answered that they would report the child abuse cases to the proper authority. It was shown that the child abuse reporting behavior was affected by what happenes after reporting and the extent of their perception of seriousness of the child abuse. It was found that they had not had any formal educational opportunity on the subject of child abuse and reporting, Most of the subjects indicated the need for frequent on-the-job training and workshops on the issue.