| Teaching-efficacy is the subjective judgment and belief which comes from teachers' understanding of their teaching effect during the education activities: how to accomplish teaching tasks and how to achieve teaching targets. And teaching-efficacy is affected by a lot of factors among which the social support is an indispensable one. The paper here aims at probing into the current situation of social support to the kindergarten teachers and the impacted path of social support to the kindergarten teachers' teaching-efficacy, so that it could bring theoretic gist to the following items: optimizing the growing up environment to the kindergarten teachers, improving the teaching efficacy of kindergarten teachers and also strengthening the psychological health of kindergarten teachers.The paper aims at discussing the current situation of social support to the kindergarten teachers and the impacted path of social support to the kindergarten teachers' teaching-efficacy, and based on the literature researches and interviews to the kindergarten teachers, the author worked out the《the questionnaires of social support and teaching-efficacy to the kindergarten teachers》. And the paper adopts the method of stratified sampling and cluster sampling, the research covers around 400 kindergarten teachers which come from Chongqing, Taiyuan, Wuhan, Changsha and Beijing. The main conclusions of the research come as following:(1) The social support which the majority of the kindergarten teachers could get is better than average in general, but there are still some ones only get comparatively lower level social support And among all the social support dimensions, emotional support ranks the highest level, while the material support is the lowest.(2) There is no significant difference among the married and the un-married kindergarten teachers for the overall level of social support. While the only difference is the accompanying support dimension: the level for the accompanying support dimension is much higher for the married ones.(3) There are significant differences for the different educational level kindergarten teachers which reflect in the aspects of the overall social support, emotional support, informational support and accompanying support. The kindergarten teachers of bachelor degree ranks the higher level in the overall social support, emotional support and informational support than the ones who come from junior college and special secondary school.; while the teachers come from special secondary school ranks the lower supporting level than the other two group teachers in the dimension of accompanying support.(4) There are no significant differences for the kindergarten teachers with different professional titles in the overall social support, material support, respected support and emotional support. However, the grade two kindergarten teachers have much more informational support than the un-titled and grade one teachers; while the senior kindergarten teachers get the highest accompanying support.(5) There are significant differences among different salary kindergarten teachers in the overall social support and any other dimensions. The higher salary they have, the more social support level of every kind and the overall social support they could obtain.(6) There is no significant difference among the teachers belong to different grade kindergartens in the overall social support level, while the grade one kindergarten teachers are superior to the grade two teachers in the aspect of informational support.(7) There is medium positive correlation between the social support and teaching-efficacy of kindergarten teachers, extremely significant differences exist among the high level and low level social support teachers which could reflect in the aspects of overall teaching-efficacy and any other dimensions.(8) social support plays a significant predictive role to the teaching-efficacy of kindergarten teachers. And among all the aspects, emotional support has a direct influence to the general teaching-efficacy; while emotional support, respected support and accompanying support has a direct influence to the personal teaching-efficacy. |
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