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The Effects of Early Childhood Teachers' Autonomy on Teacher Efficacy: Focusing on the mediating effect of ego-resilience

유아교사의 자율성이 교사효능감에 미치는 영향: 자아탄력성의 매개효과 중심으로

  • Se-Ru Kim (Dept. of Early Childhood Education, Gwangju University) ;
  • Byung-Hwan Mun (Graduate School of Education, Gwangju National University of Education)
  • 김세루 (광주대학교 유아교육과) ;
  • 문병환 (광주교육대학교 교육대학원)
  • Received : 2023.05.27
  • Accepted : 2023.07.05
  • Published : 2023.07.31
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Abstract

This study was conducted to verify the mediating effect of ego-resilience when early childhood teachers' autonomy affects teacher efficacy. The subjects of the study were 316 early childhood teachers in J degree. For data analysis, SPSS 25.0 was used to conduct Baron & Kenny's 3-step mediation effect analysis using descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation analysis, and Process Macro. As a result of the study, first, early childhood teachers' autonomy, teaching efficacy, and ego-resilience were found to have a positive correlation with each other. Second, when early childhood teachers' autonomy affects teacher efficacy, it was found that ego-resilience partially mediates. In other words, it can be interpreted that the autonomy of early childhood teachers has a meaningful effect when ego-resilience is added when it affects the improvement of teacher efficacy. Through this, it is intended to provide basic data for improving early childhood teachers' sense of teacher efficacy and preparing a direction for teacher education support.

본 연구는 유아교사의 자율성이 교사효능감에 영향을 미칠 때 자아탄력성의 매개효과를 검증하고자 실시하였다. 연구대상은 J도 유아교사 316명이다. 자료분석은 SPSS 25.0를 이용하여 기술통계와 Pearson 상관관계분석과 Process Macro를 활용한 Baron & Kenny의 3단계 매개효과 분석을 실시하였다. 연구결과 첫째, 유아교사의 자율성과 교사효능감 및 자아탄력성은 서로 정적 상관관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 유아교사의 자율성이 교사효능감에 영향을 미칠 때 자아탄력성이 부분매개하는 것으로 나타났다. 즉 유아교사의 자율성은 교사효능감 향상에 영향을 미칠 때 자아탄력성이 더해져 의미 있는 영향을 미친다고 해석할 수 있다. 이를 통해 유아교사의 교사효능감을 증진시키고 교사교육 지원방향을 마련하기 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 한다.

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이 연구는 2023년도 광주대학교 대학 연구비의 지원을 받아 수행되었음

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