The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effect of teacher efficacy on the effects of job stressors on psychological burnout. The purpose of this study was to provide the data necessary to prevent the psychological exhaustion of day car...
The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effect of teacher efficacy on the effects of job stressors on psychological burnout. The purpose of this study was to provide the data necessary to prevent the psychological exhaustion of day care teachers and to help the day care teachers reduce the physical and mental health and exhaustion by coping effectively with psychological exhaustion by raising the teachers efficacy of the day care teachers. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, the research problems are as follows. Research problems. Teacher efficacy in the relationship between child care teachers job stress and psychological burnout Is there a modulating effect? The population of this study randomly sampled 320 children from 3 ~ 5 years old who were working at day care center in Jeju Special Self - governing Province. Data collection was conducted from November 16, 2018 to December 30, 2018. A total of 314 copies were collected from 320 copies, of which 306 copies were used for the final analysis, except for 8 copies missing or untrue. The data validity rate was 95.625 Respectively. The questionnaire consisted of job stress, teacher efficacy, psychological exhaustion, and demographic characteristics. The data collected in this study were analyzed using SPSS 18.0 statistical analysis program. Reliability analysis was conducted to verify the reliability of the teachers job stress, psychological exhaustion, and teacher efficacy scale. The frequency and percentage were calculated to identify the demographic characteristics of the child care teachers, and correlation analysis was performed to confirm the relationship and direction between the variables. In addition, simple regression analysis was conducted to analyze the effect of job stress on psychological exhaustion. Finally, in order to investigate whether teacher efficacy plays a moderating role in the effect of job stress on psychological exhaustion, we analyzed the interaction effect of control variables using hierarchical multiple regression analysis. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, the correlation between job stress, psychological exhaustion, and teacher efficacy of child care teachers showed significant negative correlation between job stress and exhaustion, teacher efficacy and psychological exhaustion. Second, in order to verify the control effect of teacher efficacy in the relationship between job stress and psychological exhaustion of child care teachers, multiple control regression analysis showed a regulatory effect. Among the subvariants of teacher efficacy, general efficacy showed a regulatory effect, but personal efficacy was not significantly controlled. The results of the study show that the job stress of the child care teachers is an important variable for increasing psychological exhaustion, and that the teacher efficacy is a regulatory variable in the relationship between these two variables. These results suggest that in-depth and multifaceted follow-up studies should be conducted to improve teacher efficacy in order to reduce the psychological exhaustion of child care teachers.