本研究旨在瞭解保母所知覺的專業發展與工作滿意度現況、比較不同背景變項之保母所知覺專業發展與工作滿意度之差異情形,並探討兩者之間關係。 本研究以台中市保母為研究對象,採「保母專業發展與工作滿意度調查問卷」之問卷調查法進行研究,共計抽取360位保母為樣本,合計回收333份有效調查資料,有效回收率為92.5%。進一步以描述性統計、t考驗、單因子變異數分析、皮爾森積差相關分析、LSD事後比較法等統計方法加以分析。 本研究主要結論如下: 一、台中市保母所知覺之專業發展整體表現呈中高程度。 二、台中市保母所知覺之工作滿意度整體表現呈中高程度。 三、台中市保母所知覺之專業發展因保母之教育背景、收托人數、托兒月總收入、每年大約在職進修時數之不同有顯著差異。 四、台中市保母所知覺之工作滿意度因保母之年齡、保母年資、教育程度、收托人數、托兒月總收入、每年大約在職進修時數之不同有顯著差異。 五、台中市保母專業發展與工作滿意度之間有正相關。
The purpose of this study were to understand the professional development and job satisfaction perceived by child care providers, to compare the differences of background variants of professional development and job satisfaction, and to examine the correlation between professional development and job satisfaction. The participants were selected from child care providers in Taichung City and the questionnaire which applied the professional development and job satisfaction of child care providers was delivered to 360 child care providers and 333 child care providers returned the questionnaire and became the samples of this study. The effective retrievals is 92.5%. Moreover, this study has applied descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product moment correlation and LSD Post-hoc Test to analyze the data. The major condusions were listed as follows: 1. The perceptive professional development of child care providers in Taichung City showed a level of upper-intermediate. 2. The perceptive job satisfaction of child care providers in Taichung City also presented a level of upper-intermediate. 3. There were significant differences in the perceptive professional development of child care providers in Taichung City in terms of educational background, the number of children entrusted to the care providers, the total monthly income and the annual on-the-job training hours of each child care provider. 4. There were significant differences in perceptive job satisfaction of child care providers in Taichung City in terms of the age, working experience, educational level, the number of entrusted children to the child care providers , the total monthly income, and on-the-job training hours of each individual child care provider. 5. There was a positive correlation between the professional development and job satisfaction of the child care providers in Taichung City.