Development And Application Of The Kindergarten Teachers' Work Engagement Questionnaire

Work engagement is an emerging psychological study field, which came into being by the influence of Active Psychology at the end of last century. Work engagement is from The West, and its study is still in primary stage now. There are many disputations about how to measure the work engagement, up till now, nobody has developed the Kindergarten Teachers' Work Engagement Questionnaire. In our country, only several researchers have introduced this theory, nobody has developed Work Engagement Questionnaire according to the situation of our country, saying nothing of the Kindergarten Teachers' Work Engagement Questionnaire. Therefore, we hope that we can develope the Kindergarten Teachers' Work Engagement Questionnaire, in order to offer a tool that has good reliability and validity for researchers to measure kindergarten teachers' work engagement.We had compiled the items of kindergarten teachers' Work Engagement according to literature review, interview, and open questionnaire investigation, and then established the item store. After that, we had invited many kindergarten teachers, psychologists, graduate students of the Psychology Department, and students of The Art to evaluate each dimensionality and item, and then we had designed the original questionnaire according to their advice. In the prepared study, we had extracted four factors, namely work pleasure, work value, work obligation and work absorption according to the results of Explore Factor Analysis. This structure is very clear and accord with our frame of reference. In the formal study, we had used the other sample to make the Confirm Factory Analysis and analyze the reliability and validity.The results of analysis show that the reliability and validity of the Kindergarten Teachers' Work Engagement Questionnaire are very good, which can act as the measurement tool of the Kindergarten Teachers' Work Engagement. In the applied study, we had studied the actuality of kindergarten teachers' work engagement of Zhejiang province according to the formal study data, and analyzed the differences from different degree of work engagement in the main demographic variables. In the end, we had summeried the results of the study, pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of the study, and giving some advice for the future study.The main conclusions of the study: (1) The structure of kindergarten teachers' work engagement is made up of four dimensionalities, namely work pleasure, work value, work obligation and work absorption. (2) The structure of kindergarten teachers' work engagement is reasonable, and its reliability and validity are very good. It is a good tool to measure the kindergarten teachers' work engagement, which incarnated the culture characteristics of our country and the particularity of kindergarten teacher. (3) The degree of kindergarten teachers' work engagement of Zhejiang province has the significant differences among the length of service, the experience of study, the title of a technical post, income of each month, the style of kindergarten and the class that they taught. But there have not significant differences between the rank of kindergarten and the style of labour relationship.The innovations of the study: (1) We developed the Kindergarten Teachers' Work Engagement according to the culture characteristics of our country and the particularity of kindergarten teacher. (2) We brought forward the four factors model of work engagement, in which the dimensionalities of work pleasure and work obligation broke through the congeneric study of ancestors.