The purpose of this study is to analyze whether or not there is a difference in the perceptions and the satisfactions of child care personnel, such as in the perception of importance degrees to the subcategories of accreditation and in their satisfactions after receiving an accreditation system. The subjects of this study were 150 personnel including teachers and directors who have worked at 38 child care centers in Gyeongnam province.
The results are as follows:
Firstly, security, interaction, health and nutrition were considered as the important subcategories of accreditation. After receiving an accreditation, health & nutrition, security and interaction ranked high in the personnel's satisfaction to the subcategories of accreditation.
Secondly, there were overall significant differences in all subcategories except for two subcategories such as family and local society cooperation. The result also indicated that child care personnel's perception of importance degrees to the subcategories of accreditation were higher than their satisfaction to those subcategories.
Thirdly, there were significant differences in child care personnel perception of importance degrees on management, nursery process and health & nutrition, depending on the type of child care center providers. Such the differences were shown the highest in a private child care centers' personnel.
Finally, there were significant differences in the personnel's satisfaction to health & nutrition, security, family and local society cooperation, depending on the type of child care center providers. The private child care centers' personnel showed the highest satisfaction.