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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2017.8.11.423

The Ecological Variables Research on the Effect of Teacher's Happiness in Child Care Center  

Lee, Soon-Mi (Department of Early Childhood Education, Jeonju Kijeon College)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.8, no.11, 2017 , pp. 423-430 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of research is analyzing the ecological variables on the effect of child care teacher's happiness. The data was collected by the survey of the happiness factors and ecological variables of child care teachers. The results are listed below. First, of organismic variable, the age and the educational background of child care teacher showed discrimination one's happiness. Second, of micro system variable, the marital status is the only thing that affect the happiness. Third, of meso system variable, the teachers who are highly interact on each other such as, child to teacher and parents to teacher are much happier than others. Finally, of the outside system variable, the teachers who are working at the better working environment and good quality of duty are much happier than others.
Keywords
Child care teacher; Happiness; Ecological; Organism; Microsystem; Mesosystem; Exosystem;
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