보육교사의 마음챙김, 직무 스트레스, 교사 효능감 및 영유아 권리존중 보육실행간의 관계

The Relationship among Mindfulness, Job Stress, Teacher Efficacy and Care-giving for Infants and Children’s Right in Child-care Teachers’ Perception

This study aims to investigate the relationships among mindfulness, job stress, teacher efficacy and care-giving for infants and children s right in child-care teachers perception. It also aims to explore the mediating effects of child-care teachers job stress and teacher efficacy on care-giving for infants and children s right. For these purposes, this paper analyses the survey of 300 child-care teachers. For data analysis, the correlation between four variables (mindfulness, job stress, teacher efficacy, care-giving for infants and children s right) was analyzed. The structure equation model analysis was made to identify the mediating effect of job stress and teacher efficacy on the relationship between mindfulness and care-giving for infants and children s right. The study reveals the following results. First, the higher the level of mindfulness and teacher efficacy is, the higher the level of care-giving for infants and children s right. On the other hand, the lower the level of job stress is, the higher the level of care-giving for infants and children s right. Second, the mediating effect of teacher efficacy with lower job stress was identified in the relation of child-care teacher s mindfulness to care-giving for infants and children s right. The findings of this study suggest that child-care teachers need psychological support service and system development to improve mindfulness, to alleviate job stress and to improve teacher efficacy for the proper care-giving for infants and children s right.