The purpose of this study was to confirm how the interaction and play support competency early childhood-teacher affect the relationship between teaching competency and job satisfaction of early childhood-teacher. In order to achieve this research pur...
The purpose of this study was to confirm how the interaction and play support competency early childhood-teacher affect the relationship between teaching competency and job satisfaction of early childhood-teacher. In order to achieve this research purpose, the following research questions were selected.
1. Do teaching capabilities, early childhood-teacher interaction, and play support competency on job satisfaction?
2. What is the mediating effect of early childhood-teacher interaction and play support competency in the relationship between class competency and job satisfaction?
3. What is the sequential mediating effect of early childhood-teacher interaction and play support competency in the relationship between class competency and job satisfaction?
In order to empirically confirm these research problems, data were collected and analyzed for a total of 230 daycare center teachers located in Gyeonggi-do. Data was collected using a web-based electronic questionnaire (Google questionnaire), and the collected data were analyzed using the IBM SPSS V 25.0 program and PROCESS Macro V 4.2.
The results of this study are as follows.
First, it was found that instructional competency, early childhood-teacher interaction, and play support competency had an effect on job satisfaction. Second, it was found that early childhood-teacher interaction and play support competency play a mediating role in the relationship between instructional competency and job satisfaction. It was found that the early childhood-teacher interaction and play support competency partially mediated the relationship between instructional competency and job satisfaction, respectively, thereby increasing job satisfaction. Third, in the relationship between instructional competency and job satisfaction, it was found that early childhood-teacher interaction plays a sequential mediating role through play support competency.
The implications of this study are as follows.
First, as a result of analyzing the effect of sub-factors of instructional competency on job satisfaction, it was confirmed that class improvement efforts, instructional goals, and instructional design had a positive effect on job satisfaction, and among the sub-factors of early childhood-teacher interaction, emotional interaction had a significant effect on job satisfaction, and play support beliefs and sensitivity, which are sub-factors of play support competency, had a significant effect on job satisfaction, increasing job satisfaction. Second, it was found that the interaction between infants and teachers and play support competency were partially mediated in the relationship between instructional competency and job satisfaction, and the causal relationship between variables was empirically confirmed. Third, it was confirmed that the early childhood-teacher interaction increased job satisfaction through play support competency in the relationship between instructional competency and job satisfaction.
In conclusion, early childhood teachers' job satisfaction may vary depending on their success in class execution skills, feel value and reward for their job, and have a stable emotion on their own. In this way, teachers' teaching competencies not only directly affect job satisfaction, but also indirectly through infant-teacher interaction and play support capabilities. In addition, job satisfaction, a dependent variable, was influenced by the physical and social environment such as relationships with the director and colleagues, working conditions and environment, remuneration and promotion. The importance of instructional competencies, infant-teacher interactions, and play support competencies that directly affect the instructional activities of early childhood teachers was confirmed.