This study aims to identify the difference in teacher commitment at workplace child-care centers
and understand the relationship between teacher commitment and teacher efficacy. To achieve this,
the data were collected from 176 teachers who were working at workplace child-care centers in
Gyeonggi province, One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Scheffé test, and Pearson's correlation
analysis were performed. According to the results, it was found that there is a high positive
correlation between teacher commitment and teacher efficacy. The teacher commitment appears high
and especially the teacher commitment to infants and toddlers appears the highest at the workplace
child-care centers. It was also found that there is a significant difference in teacher efficacy
depending on academic ability and work experience of teachers, age of infants and toddlers, and total
number of teachers in the centers. This study is significant in that it provides the basic data for
drawing up the measures to support the teacher commitment as one of the internal characteristics of
the teachers working at the workplace child-care centers. Further studies need to explore the
relationship between teacher commitment and teacher efficacy depending on the type of kindergarten
or day care center.