Research On The Relationship Between Kindergarten Teachers' Role Maladjustment, Occupation Commitment And Job Satisfaction

Job satisfaction is an important question of teachers, students and education's qulity, and also an realistic question in teacher's occupational development. Job satisfaction is an important study in teacher education. Level of job satisfaction can affect teaching attitude and also affect the quality of teaching. Because of role maladjustment is a typical case in teacher's occupation, and can affect job satisfaction importantly, and occupation commitment also has a close relationship with job satisfaction. So this study based on the domestic and foreign relative study, stand on the native culture to analysis. Descriptive, Multivariate and Structural Equation Modeling Test were used in date analysis. The purpose of this study is to investigate Kindergarten teacher's role maladjustment, occupation commitment and job satisfaction as well as the relationship among this three factors in Shanxi Province , discuss how Kindergarten teacher's role maladjustment affect job satisfaction and how occupation commitment adjust them. Put forward a proposal in further facilitating job satisfaction for Kindergarten teacher from relieving the role maladjustment and improving the occupation commitment. The result showed that:(1) Kindergarten teacher's role maladjustment was existed generally in Shanxi Province, and role ambiguity was seriouser than role conflict . Different education level and the types of the school were alternant on role ambiguity.(2) The overall of Kindergarten teacher's occupation commitment level was low, and continuance commitment was higher than affective commitment, normative commitment. Different years of teaching experience, education level and the types of the school were alternant on occupation commitment; Different education level , the types of the school and the classes the teacher responsible for were alternant on occupation commitment.(3) The overall of Kindergarten teachers' job satisfaction level was satisfying. Satisfaction in the administration was relatively higher than that in salary welfare. Different years of teaching experience and education level were alternant on job satisfaction; Different the types of the school and the classes the teacher responsible for were alternant on job satisfaction; Different years of teaching experience, education level and the types of the school were alternant on job satisfaction.(4)The negative relationship was existed between role maladjustment and job satisfaction. Role ambiguity had higher negative relationship than role conflict with job satisfaction' five aspects.(5)The positive relationship was existed between occupation commitment and job satisfaction , particularly existed among affective commitment, normative commitment and job satisfaction, and the negative relationship was existed between continuance commitment and job satisfaction, namely, the higher occupation commitment' level, especially affective commitment and normative commitmen'level, the higher job satisfaction'level.(6) The negative relationship was existed between role maladjustment and occupation commitment, and particularly existed among affective commitment, normative commitment and role maladjustment, and the positive relationship was existed between continuance commitment and role maladjustment. Role ambiguity and occupation commitment decided the job satisfaction's high or low, they were alternant prominently and acted a very important variant to job satisfaction.(7) Occupation commitment acted as a psychology medium variable between role maladjustment and job satisfaction, had an adjustive action. Occupation commitment could relieve the negative affection because of the role maladjustment, and increase the job satisfaction.