Explore the correlations of occupational commitment, psychological resilience, job satisfaction, and burnout in kindergarten teachers’ turnover intentions in rural China
Ensuring the stability of teachers is a crucial task in developing early care education; thus, reducing the turnover rate of kindergarten teachers is the core priority. This research explores the correlation of four antecedents with teachers’ turnover intentions: occupational commitment, psychologic...
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| description | Ensuring the stability of teachers is a crucial task in developing early care education; thus, reducing the turnover rate of kindergarten teachers is the core priority. This research explores the correlation of four antecedents with teachers’ turnover intentions: occupational commitment, psychological resilience, job satisfaction, and burnout. This study utilized a stratified sampling methodology based on regional GDP levels and implemented a hybrid data collection approach combining online and offline questionnaire distribution to ensure comprehensive representation across socioeconomic contexts. Taking the collected data from 920 kindergarten teachers in the rural area of Hebei Province, China as the research object, the research presents the following findings: (i) nearly 60% of kindergarten teachers prefer to Move rather than Leave when having turnover intentions; (ii) the improvement of psychological resilience and working conditions could effectively mitigate the decision of kindergarten teachers to leave entirely; (iii) teachers with no turnover intentions are more concerned about intrinsic motivation, but there is a risk of “false retention”; (iv) job satisfaction has the most substantial impact on kindergarten teachers’ turnover intentions, but the performance is relatively poor; (v) risk and protective factors synergistically affect teachers’ turnover intentions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ebd61730e550491eba77cac4e9ce5df52025-08-20T03:27:44ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782025-06-011610.3389/fpsyg.2025.16058311605831Explore the correlations of occupational commitment, psychological resilience, job satisfaction, and burnout in kindergarten teachers’ turnover intentions in rural ChinaYanan ZhengXiaoyu WangLi YangEnsuring the stability of teachers is a crucial task in developing early care education; thus, reducing the turnover rate of kindergarten teachers is the core priority. This research explores the correlation of four antecedents with teachers’ turnover intentions: occupational commitment, psychological resilience, job satisfaction, and burnout. This study utilized a stratified sampling methodology based on regional GDP levels and implemented a hybrid data collection approach combining online and offline questionnaire distribution to ensure comprehensive representation across socioeconomic contexts. Taking the collected data from 920 kindergarten teachers in the rural area of Hebei Province, China as the research object, the research presents the following findings: (i) nearly 60% of kindergarten teachers prefer to Move rather than Leave when having turnover intentions; (ii) the improvement of psychological resilience and working conditions could effectively mitigate the decision of kindergarten teachers to leave entirely; (iii) teachers with no turnover intentions are more concerned about intrinsic motivation, but there is a risk of “false retention”; (iv) job satisfaction has the most substantial impact on kindergarten teachers’ turnover intentions, but the performance is relatively poor; (v) risk and protective factors synergistically affect teachers’ turnover intentions.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1605831/fullkindergarten teachersturnover intention(s)occupational commitmentpsychological resiliencejob satisfactionburnout |
| spellingShingle | Yanan Zheng Xiaoyu Wang Li Yang Explore the correlations of occupational commitment, psychological resilience, job satisfaction, and burnout in kindergarten teachers’ turnover intentions in rural China Frontiers in Psychology kindergarten teachers turnover intention(s) occupational commitment psychological resilience job satisfaction burnout |
| title | Explore the correlations of occupational commitment, psychological resilience, job satisfaction, and burnout in kindergarten teachers’ turnover intentions in rural China |
| title_full | Explore the correlations of occupational commitment, psychological resilience, job satisfaction, and burnout in kindergarten teachers’ turnover intentions in rural China |
| title_fullStr | Explore the correlations of occupational commitment, psychological resilience, job satisfaction, and burnout in kindergarten teachers’ turnover intentions in rural China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Explore the correlations of occupational commitment, psychological resilience, job satisfaction, and burnout in kindergarten teachers’ turnover intentions in rural China |
| title_short | Explore the correlations of occupational commitment, psychological resilience, job satisfaction, and burnout in kindergarten teachers’ turnover intentions in rural China |
| title_sort | explore the correlations of occupational commitment psychological resilience job satisfaction and burnout in kindergarten teachers turnover intentions in rural china |
| topic | kindergarten teachers turnover intention(s) occupational commitment psychological resilience job satisfaction burnout |
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