보육교사의 영유아 권리 존중에 영향을 미치는 집단자존감, 전문직업성, 조직 건강성 간의 구조적 관계 분석

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study was to analyze the structural relationship between the variables of childcare teachers' collective self-esteem, professionalism, organizational health, and respect for infants' rights, and through this, seek ways to improve policies for nurturing and maintaining highly qualified childcare teachers.
 Methods A survey was conducted with 393 childcare teachers as the research subjects, and structural model analysis and mediation effect analysis using phantom variables were conducted.
 Results First, the relationships between the variables of childcare teachers' collective self-esteem, professionalism, organizational health, and respect for infants' rights all had significant positive correlations. In other words, it means that when childcare teachers have high collective self-esteem, professionalism, and high organizational health, respect for the rights of infants and young children is high. Second, collective self-esteem was found to affect respect for infants' rights through the individual mediating effects of professionalism and organizational health and the sequential double mediating effects.
 Conclusions We learned that respect for the rights of infants and young children is achieved through social support that can increase collective self-esteem as child care teachers, improvement of professionalism through self-development of child care teachers, and organizational health through appropriate compensation and working conditions.