The Research On The Relationship Of Kindergarten Teachers’ Subjective Well-being And Work Engagement

With the development of positive psychology, subjective well-being as an important factor of personal psychological state and quality of life, have become an important indicators of mental health. Subjective well-being is the holistic assessment of their quality of life according to an individual standard. It includes two basic components, emotional experience and life satisfaction. Emotional experience contains the emotions of individual life, including positive emotions and negative emotions; Life satisfaction reflect a cognitive evaluation to individual’s overall quality of life, that is the judgment of individual’s life satisfaction. At the same time, as the opposite of job burnout, work engagement has become a hotspot of scholars. Work engagement is a lasting, positive and fulfilling work related emotional and cognitive status, including three dimensions:energy, dedication and focus. Work engagement is a positive experience, have the characteristics of the persistence and diffuse, and not to a specific person or thing, embody the high concentration and strong sense of identity of individual’s work.The kindergarten teachers are the "significant others" in children’lives, the mental health is not only affects itself, but also affects the children’s physical and mental health, even the development all their life. The kindergarten teachers’ work have the following characteristics, security responsibility, long working hours, complex trivial work, it makes easier for the kindergarten teachers have some occupational diseases and negative emotions. And many people are simply consider the kindergarten as a place that taking care of children, unaware the value of kindergarten education in a person’s lifelong development and national progress, the education right of children and the right to development can’t get enough attention, long-term challenges of kindergarten teachers’professional image, has also led to the lack of kindergarten teachers’subjective well-being. Teachers who have lower levels of happiness are not satisfied with the situation of the present life, hardly have a higher level of job engagement, which seriously affects the physical and mental health of kindergarten teacher, their work enthusiasm, teaching quality, and also have a negative impact on children’s growth.With the method of questionnaire survey, this study selected a total of371kindergarten teachers as the research object; use the Subjective Well-being Scale for Chinese Citizens (SWBS-CC) drawn up by Zhanjun Xing and the kindergarten teachers work engagement questionnaire drawn up by Jinliang Qin as a research tool, we discussed the present situation of the kindergarten teachers’ work engagement and subjective well-being, the differences of demographic variables and the relationship between the work engagement and subjective well-being. The main result as follows:(1) Kindergarten teachers have a higher level of subjective well-being. The degree of Kindergarten teachers’ subjective well-being has the significant differences among the age, the title of a technical post, the length of service, but has no significant difference in educational background.(2) With four dimensionalities of Kindergarten teachers’ work engagement, the highest score is work value, the second is the work obligation, the third is work pleasure, and the lowest is work absorption. Their work engagement has significant differences in age and no significant difference among the title of a technical post, the length of service and educational background.(3) Kindergarten teachers’ subjective well-being has a significant positive correlation with work engagement; subjective well-being is the effective variable for the work engagement prediction.