Differences in Childcare Teachers’ Psychological Characteristics by Director Leadership Style Based : Focusing on Job Satisfaction, Self-Efficacy, and Burnout

Key Points

• The study aims to explore childcare teachers' perspectives on director leadership styles and their impacts on job satisfaction, self-efficacy, and burnout.
• Utilized second-year data from the Korean Early Childhood Education and Care Panel (K-ECEC-P).
• Conducted two-step cluster analysis to categorize director leadership styles based on human, relational, and bureaucratic factors.
• Analyzed differences in job satisfaction, self-efficacy, and burnout among groups using one-way ANOVA.
• Job satisfaction was highest in the democratic task performance group, followed by bureaucratic performance management, vertical compliance, and passive maintenance.
• Self-efficacy levels ranked highest in democratic task performance, then bureaucratic performance management, passive maintenance, and vertical compliance.
• Burnout was highest in the vertical compliance group, followed by bureaucratic performance management, passive maintenance, and democratic task performance.

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