論文　Attitude Toward Caregiving and Related Factors among the Long-Term Care Workers before the Enactment of the Certified Care Worker Act

This study is designed to reveal the structure of the attitude of care staffs at the LongTerm Care Facilities (LTCF) toward various elements of their work, and to etermine the important factors that influence these attitudes. The survey was conducted to a sample of 563 care staffs in 21 LTCFs in Tokyo. The attitude toward their works is measured with the E. Kahanaʼs Work with the Aged Scale (WWAS). Factor analysis with Varimax rotation reveals that the attitude toward working with the aged are composed of three factors as follows. Factor 1 can be interpreted as self-estimation of social status as a care staff in a LTCF. Factor 2 denotes of degree of tension and/or frustration experienced in working with the aged, and Factor 3 represent the attitude toward the necessity of social welfare services for the aged. A series of Analysis of Variance and Covariance are performed to each of the factor scores of these three factors as dependent variables, which disclosed that all three attitude dimensions are significantly influenced by the degree of job satisfaction of the care staffs in the LTCFs. It indicates that the more positive attitude toward working with the aged is expressed by those who have greater satisfaction with the nature of their work.