• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.199-206
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• 2018

The study objective was to understand the effects of self-efficacy and occupational value on the major satisfaction of pre-service childcare teachers. A questionnaire survey was conducted targeting 281 pre-service childcare teachers in A city. In the study results, first, pre-service childcare teachers highly perceived the self-regulatory efficacy and confidence of self-efficacy, the intrinsic value of occupational value, and the general satisfaction and perception satisfaction of major satisfaction. Second, there were statistically significant correlations between self-efficacy, occupational value, and major satisfaction of pre-service childcare teachers. Third, the self-efficacy and occupational value of pre-service childcare teachers had positive effects on the major satisfaction. Based on these study results, there should be more diverse research for the formation of proper self-efficacy and correct occupational value, so that students majoring in childcare could perceive the importance of major satisfaction and also perform their childcare jobs with high-quality.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.5553-5563
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to understand the structural relationships of the kindergarten teachers' role performance with the teaching efficacy and job stress. To achieve the research goal, this study conducted a survey targeting a total of 300 teachers, vice principals and principals working for infant educational institutes located in Gyeonggi-do, and analyzed 253 copies of the survey in total. The study used a structural equation to design a structural equation-based model to look into the structural relationships related to the role performance with the teaching efficacy and job stress. The collected data was then analyzed by AMOS 18.0 to estimate the correspondence and the parameter of the model. According to the results of the analysis, the role performance of kindergarten teachers was observed to have an immediate influence on the teaching efficacy. The role performance of kindergarten teachers was directly connected to job stress. The job stress had an indirect relationship with the role performance of kindergarten teachers through the teaching efficacy. The teaching efficacy of the kindergarten teachers was confirmed to have immediate association with the job stress of infant teachers.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.1424-1435
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to investigate the causal relationship among job stress, teaching efficacy belief, and organizational commitment for early childhood teachers. Besides, the current study examined the mediating effect of teaching efficacy belief on the relationship between job stress and organizational commitment. The data were gathered through the questionnaires from 500 kindergarten and nursery teachers who are located in D metropolitan city. Among them, the total of 426 subjects were used for analysis from recovered 442. The results indicated that job stress was negatively correlated with teaching efficacy belief and organizational commitment for early childhood teachers. Teaching efficacy belief significantly had a positive relation with organizational commitment. Moreover, teaching efficacy belief turned out to have a partial mediating effect on the relationship between job stress and organizational commitment. This study has its significance in that it looked at the job stress as a predictor variable to explain the organizational commitment, the positive viewpoint by turning away from the early childhood teachers' burnout, and provided the potential for the environmental intervention by confirming the mediating effect of teaching efficacy belief.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.5488-5496
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to understand the effect of career locus of control on university students' career decision efficacy. For this purpose, it performed a questionnaire survey analysis on 476 university students in I city. According to the results of the analysis, the first is that there were not the statistically significant differences of career locus of control and career decision efficacy for subjects' background variables. The second is that it found the statistically significant co-relationship between career locus of control and career decision efficacy. Lastly, it found that career locus of control has positive effect on career decision efficacy. Given the results of the analysis, the inner career locus factors of control have strong effects on career search and career decision, and career decision efficacy played an important role on career related decision making and career coaching. In this point, it is required to perform more studies and analyses on career locus of control and career decision efficacy and on various career coaching programs in the future.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.2727-2734
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• 2013

This study was designed to examine the effect of maternal attachment of infant and parenting efficacy on infant-mother's interaction. The subject were 180 infant and their mother who were early childhood education service in G city. Data analysed with Pearson correlation, regression. The results were as follows. First, there were showed tendency of normal level that mother's attachment and parenting efficacy to infant, infant-mother's interactions. Second, there were significant positive relationships between the mother's attachment of infant and infant-mother's interactions. Third, there were significant positive relationships between the mother's parenting efficacy and infant-mother's interactions. Fourth, the mother's attachment of infant and parenting efficacy has effect on the infant-mother's interactions.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.1157-1163
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship among self-efficacy, self-determinative motivation and creative thinking ability. And to confirm the relative predictive power of motivation variables in predicting middle school students' creative thinking ability. The instruments used in this study were 'TTCT', 'Self-efficacy' and 'Self-Regulation Scale'. Self-reported response data on these instruments from 212 middle school students in Seoul were analyzed. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, Pearson correlations, multiple stepwise regression analysis by using SPSS 18.0. The major results of this study were as follows; First, the correlations among self-efficacy, self-determinative motivation and creative thinking ability were significant. Second, Task difficulty preferred, self-control efficacy and internal motivation were the best predictor of creative thinking ability in middle school students. This study suggested that Task difficulty preferred, self-control efficacy and internal motivation is essential to improve creative thinking ability in middle school students.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.1148-1156
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship among self-efficacy, motivation proposed by self-determination theory and academic achievement and to confirm the relative predictive power of motivation variables in predicting 480 middle/high students' achievement. The instruments used in this study were 'Self-efficacy' and 'Self - regulation' scale. The data were analyzed with Pearson correlations and multiple regression (stepwised) analysis. The correlations among self-efficacy, self-determination motivation and academic achievement were significant. The variables among self-determination were correlated to academic achievement in middle school. Among the variables of self-determination motivation, identified regulation, Integrated regulation and intrinsic regulation were positively related to academic achievement in high school but amotivation was negatively related to academic achievement. Self-control efficacy and self-confidence were the significance predictor of academic achievement in middle school. Hard-task preference and self-control efficacy were the significance predictor of academic achievement in high school students. Introjected-regulation was the best predictor of academic achievement in middle school. Identified-regulation was the best predictor of academic achievement in high school.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.1156-1174
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• 2018

This study intended to investigate the structural relationship and the pathway of academic resilience, covert narcissism, interpersonal competence and self-efficacy for nursing students. For this purpose, 460 nursing students from three colleges in J province were sampled for convenience. The result of this study were as follows: First, the fix indexed of causal model among academic resilience, covert narcissism, interpersonal competence and self-efficacy were identified suitably. Second, covert narcissism, interpersonal competence and self-efficacy of nursing students has direct effect on academic resilience, it was statistically significant. Third, interpersonal competence and self-efficacy of nursing students showed mediating effects on the relationship between covert narcissism and academic resilience, but they were competitive effects. Self-efficacy mediated the relationship between interpersonal competence and academic resilience. Based on the results of the study, the necessity of developing an effective education program considering the academic resilience and related factors of nursing students was suggested.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.489-500
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of nursing college students' knowledge and attitudes about patient safety on self-efficacy. The participants comprised 186 students in a nursing college. Data collection was from September 22, 2020, to October 24, 2020. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, an independent t-test, a one-way ANOVA, the Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple regression through the SPSS 25.0 Program. Nursing students' knowledge of patient safety was 10.62±1.86 points on average, out of a total of 16 points. Attitudes toward patient safety and self-efficacy were an average of 3.72±0.45 points and an average of 3.71±0.65 points, respectively, out of 5 points. The relationship between knowledge and attitude about patient safety and self-efficacy was positively correlated. The effect on self-efficacy is attitude toward patient safety, satisfaction with a major, school practice, and clinical experience. The explanatory power was 14.4%. In conclusion, it is necessary to develop educational programs for patient safety that apply smart technology in order to enhance the self-efficacy of nursing students.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.543-551
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating effect of academic self-efficacy in the process that nursing students' task value affects class participation. The subjects of this study were 161 second-year students of the Department of Nursing at K University located in G city, and the data collection period was from October 5 to October 14, 2020. The mediating effect of academic self-efficacy in the relationship between task value and class participation was analyzed using Baron and Kenny's 3-step mediating effect verification procedure using simple and multiple regression analysis and the statistical significance of mediating effects was verified by the Sobel test. As a result of this study, task value and academic self-efficacy were major factors influencing class participation, and academic self-efficacy was found to be a significant partial mediating variable in the relationship between task value and class participation. These factors explained 55% of class participation. In order to increase learners' class participation, an integrated approach that can improve task value and academic self-efficacy is needed.