A Study on the Experience of Child Care Teachers' Stress and Psychological Exhaustion

February 28, 2023  |  Vol.9, No.2  |  PP. 267-278  | PDF

AUTHORS:

Jae-sook Lee, Department of Human Service Education, Kwangshin University, South Korea

Se-ran Kook, Nursing school, Donggang University, South Korea

Mi-Na Lee, Welfare Counseling Convergence Department, Kwangshin University, South Korea

KEYWORDS:

Childcare Staff, Job Stress, Psychological Exhaustion, Research on Childcare Experience, Prevention of Child Abuse

Abstract

A Study on the Experience of Child Care Teachers' Stress and Psychological Exhaustion. Childcare staff spend all day with children. Child abuse by childcare teachers is increasing every year. The teacher's job stress increases the expression of negative emotions such as anxiety, tension, anger, and irritability in the classroom, and these negative emotions of the teacher worsen the student-teacher relationship. Child abuse may occur due to intensified job stress. In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to view childcare as a national task and to make efforts to improve the treatment of childcare teachers and enhance professionalism at the national level. The subjects of this study were randomly sampled six incumbent nursery school staff working at kindergartens located in K and I cities and selected them as research subjects. Therefore, this study intends to conduct a childcare experience study on job stress reduction and psychological exhaustion targeting early childhood teachers. In order to improve the childcare staff's emotional expression and the quality of childcare services, it is necessary to improve the social perspective and continuous work environment of childcare staff. This suggests significance in providing evidence for the need for continuous teacher break time and teacher education and exchanges with fellow teachers to understand emotional expression and methods so that they can respond sensitively to the emotions of infants and toddlers and have a considerate perspective do.

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Citations:

APA:
Lee, J. S., Kook, S. R., Lee, M. N. (2023). A Study on the Experience of Child Care Teachers' Stress and Psychological Exhaustion. Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange (APJCRI), ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), KCTRS, 9(2), 267-278. doi: 10.47116/apjcri.2023.02.22

MLA:
Lee, Jae-sook, et al. “A Study on the Experience of Child Care Teachers' Stress and Psychological Exhaustion.” Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange, ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), KCTRS, vol. 9, no. 2, 2023, pp. 267-278. APJCRI, http://fucos.or.kr/journal/APJCRI/Articles/v9n2/22.html.

IEEE:
[1] J. S. Lee, S. R. Kook, M. N. Lee, “A Study on the Experience of Child Care Teachers' Stress and Psychological Exhaustion.” Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange (APJCRI), ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), KCTRS, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 267-278, February 2023.

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