A Study on Early Childhood Teachers' Awareness and Reporting Practices of Child Abuse

This study was intended to analyze the early childhood teachers’ awareness of mandatory reporting system and to analyze the affects of related variables on child abuse reporting behavior. Participants were 213 teachers working at kindergarten and preschool(mean age = 65.12 months). It used the ‘’Awareness of the mandatory reporting system’, ‘Knowledge of child abuse’, ‘Awareness and Attitude to Reporting child abuse’, ‘Efficacy of reporting child abuse’, ‘the view of teaching’ and ‘Recognition and behavior of reporting child abuse’ in collection of data. The collected data were analyzed through chi-square and hierarchical regression analysis using the SPSS 21.0 program.. The results of this study indicated that there were partially significant differences among the groups in the teachers’s awareness of mandatory reporting system. Second,. awareness and attitude to reporting child abuse and efficacy of reporting child abus were predict variables affecting the behavior of reporting child abuse.