동료 교사의 사회적 지지와 교사-유아 상호작용 관계에서 교사 자아탄력성의 매개효과

The Mediating Effect of Teacher Ego-resilience in the Relationship Between Colleague Teachers’ Social Support and Teacher-child Interaction

The purpose of this study is to analyze the mediating effect of teacher’s ego resilience in the relationship between the social support of colleague teachers and teacher-child interaction. A survey was conducted on 181 teachers working at early childhood education institutions located in Gyeonggi and Chungbuk regions. The structural equation model was verified with the Mplus 6.0 program.First, the social support of colleague teachers directly affects teacher’s ego-resilience and teacher-child interaction, and teachers ego-resilience has a significant effect on teacher-child interaction. Second, the teachers ego-resilience was found to be partially mediated in the relationship between the social support of fellow teachers and teacher-child interaction. With bootstrapping, the mediating effect of teachers ego-resilience was found to be statistically significant between the social support of colleague teachers and teacher-child interaction. Social support of fellow teachers plays an important role in the positive expression of teacher-child interaction, and the quality of relationships with children can be further enhanced by promoting teachers ego-resilience that mediates the two variables.