The Relationship Among Grit, Mindset and Teacher Efficacy of Social Workers working in Community Child Centers

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship among grit, mindset, and teacher efficacy of social workers in community child centers and to suggest ways to support them based on the results. To this end, a questionnaire was administered to 220 social workers at community child centers in Region J, and 204 questionnaires were finally analyzed, excluding 6 who were unfaithful. For the analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and structural equation modeling were conducted using jamovi 2.3 and Amos 23.0 programs. The results of the study are as follows. First, the grit of social workers in community child centers had a positive effect on mindset; second, their grit had a positive effect on teacher efficacy; and finally, mindset had a positive effect on teacher efficacy. Based on these findings, social work interventions that can support community child centers social workers to increase their grit and mindset to increase their teacher efficacy and ultimately improve the quality of child care services are proposed.