Development and Validation of Job Crafting Scale for Early Childhood Teachers

Abstract

Objectives This study aims to develop and validate a Job Crafting Scale for early childhood teachers, which is possible to measure job crafting performed by early childhood teachers to find the value and meaning of their jobs and work. Methods To develop the job crafting scale for early childhood teachers, literature review, Focus Group Interview with teachers and administrators of early childhood education, content validity, and preliminary survey of 203 early childhood teachers were conducted. To validate the developed scale, 342 early childhood teachers were surveyed. Results The final Job Crafting Scale for early childhood teachers developed and validated in this study is a 5-point Likert scale which consists of 29 items of 6 factors including Cognitive crafting (5 items), Curriculum planning crafting (4 items), Curriculum implementing crafting (8 items), Child relational crafting (4 items), Teacher relational crafting (4 items), and Parental relational crafting (4 items). Conclusions This scale is meaningful in that it can be used as an example for early childhood teachers to self-evaluate their own job crafting and practice job crafting. In addition, we hope that it will be used in various empirical studies to find support measures at the individual, organizational, and national levels to improve the Job Crafting of early childhood teachers.