유아의 인지, 언어, 정서 및 사회적 능력에 영향을 미치는 유치원의 질과 교사 관련 변인 분석 = The influence of kindergarten quality, teacher`s job satisfaction, and efficacy on children`s cognitive, Linguistic, emotional, and social competences

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study examines the relationships among kindergarten quality, teachers` job satisfaction and efficacy with children`s cognitive, linguistic, emotional, and social competencies, analyzing the paths of the effects of kindergarten quality, teachers` job satisfaction and efficacyon children`s competences. This study surveyed 58 teachers, each in charge of a class of 5-year-olds at 58 private kindergartens in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do and 211 children who had attended one kindergarten for more than two years. The survey was conducted during a preparatory study and training for research assistants and agreement among the raters was verified. Pearson`s Products Moment Correlation, hierarchical multiple regression analysis, or structural equation were used to analyze data. Results: Kindergarten and teachers` job satisfaction and efficacy were proven to be related to, and to have effects upon children`s cognitive, linguistic, emotional, and social competencies. As to the paths the effects took, kindergarten quality had direct effects on children`s competencies and teachers` efficacy. While teachers` efficacy, being thus influenced by kindergarten quality, further affected the children`s competencies through teachers` job satisfaction.