Abstract
In China-Mainland, the turnover rate of private kindergarten teachers remains high for a long time. With 692 Chinese private kindergarten teachers as subjects, we applied a questionnaire survey to examine the relationship between self-occupation stereotypes held by private kindergarten teachers and their turnover intention and the underlying mechanisms. The structured equation model (SCM) was conducted to analyze data and revealed a significantly positive correlation between self-occupation stereotypes and turnover intention. Further analyses showed that on the individual level, personal control sense mediated the relationship between self-occupation stereotypes and turnover intention, and on the organization level, professional identity mediated the relationship between them. Additionally, self-occupation stereotypes were also related to turnover intention via the chain-mediating role of personal control sense and professional identity. The current research firstly clarified the acting paths between self-occupation stereotypes of private kindergarten teachers and turnover intention on both the individual and the organization levels. In practice, the research provided a novel perspective for policy makers to alleviate the turnover tendency of private kindergarten teachers.
Highlights
Since the 1980s, Chinese government has begun to carry out the so-called “one-child policy” to prevent excessive population growth
We proposed that personal control sense and professional identity may both mediated the relationship between occupation stereotypes and turnover intention
On the basis of previous literature review, we proposed that besides personal control sense, professional identity mediated the relationship between occupation stereotypes and turnover intention
Summary
Since the 1980s, Chinese government has begun to carry out the so-called “one-child policy” to prevent excessive population growth. A couple can only have one child in their lifetime. With the coming of the aging society in recent years, the original one-child policy was changed into the two-child policy that all married couples could have two children. The two-child policy caused a sudden rise of the number of kindergarten-age children and challenged the affordance of public private kindergartens in China. To improve the affordance of preschool education system, Chinese government has taken a series of measures to promote the development of private kindergartens (Li et al, 2011; Pan et al, 2018). Benefiting from huge market demands for kindergartens and supportive policies from government, the number of private
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