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Sustainable Development Mechanism in Rural Kindergartens: The Relationships among Enabling Organizational Structure, Kindergarten Directors’ Leadership and Early Childhood Teachers’ Well-Being

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  • Zhonglian Yan

    (Faculty of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China)

  • Ziqing Wang

    (Faculty of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China)

  • Qingling Meng

    (Faculty of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
    Faculty of Education, Hulunbuir College, Hailar 021008, China)

  • Yujie Wang

    (Faculty of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China)

  • Yunfei Liu

    (Faculty of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China)

Abstract

Kindergarten directors’ leadership, early childhood teachers’ well-being, and enabling organizational structure are important components of ecological development in kindergartens. To understand the relationships among the three, identification of the driving force for the sustainable development of kindergartens in rural China must occur. This study used the Kindergarten Care and Education Leadership Questionnaire, the Enabling Organizational Structure Scale, and the Teacher Well-being Scale as research instruments to explore these relationships in an online survey of rural early childhood teachers (N = 1958, 98.3% female, 23.5% unmarried, 76.5% married, 68.8% county, and 31.2% rural). The study found that the overall levels of rural early childhood teachers’ well-being, director leadership, and enabling organizational structure were all in the medium to high range. There is a two-way effect between director leadership and enabling organizational structure, with kindergarten directors’ leadership positively predicting early childhood teachers’ well-being, but this effect is mainly mediated through the enabling organization. Therefore, to achieve sustainable development in rural kindergartens, emphasis needs to be placed on building an enabling organizational structure based on early childhood teachers’ well-being and kindergarten directors’ leadership.

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  • Zhonglian Yan & Ziqing Wang & Qingling Meng & Yujie Wang & Yunfei Liu, 2022. "Sustainable Development Mechanism in Rural Kindergartens: The Relationships among Enabling Organizational Structure, Kindergarten Directors’ Leadership and Early Childhood Teachers’ Well-Being," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(21), pages 1-14, November.
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