Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of interpersonal stress, work overload, and salary satisfaction on turnover intention of private child care center teachers with 3 years or less of experience.
 Methods The subjects of 275 child care teachers with less than 3 years of experience working at private child care centers in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do were selected by convenience sampling. The hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to find out the effects of interpersonal stress, work overload, and salary satisfaction on turnover intention.
 Results The results showed that the turnover intention was differed in terms of teacher’s age, marital status, education level, major, age of class. It was analyzed that interpersonal stress, work overload, and salary satisfaction had an effect on the turnover intention of teachers with less than 3 years of experience working in private child care centers. In particular, interpersonal stress was found to have the greatest effect on turnover intention.
 Conclusions The results of this study suggest that in order to lower the turnover intention of child care teachers in private child care centers, it is necessary to find a way to develop communication skills to lower the level of stress from the relationship between the director and parents, reduce the workload, and improve the salary system to a realistic level.

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