Objectives: This study aimed at exploring factors and perception influencing job value of caregiver trainees who are classified as health group, welfare group and newcomer in terms of their previous educations.
Methods: For the empirical study, we exploited the convenient sampling and collected 138 questionnaires from caregiver trainees in Jeonju city. The data was analyzed by the cross-tabulation with χ2 to examine the differences among groups and the multiple regressions to find factors and perception influencing to job value.
Results: First, we found differences in the reasons of attending the class among health, welfare, and newcomer groups. Second, for the reason to attaining caregiver job, newcomers thought economic reason and the health and the welfare groups responded self actualization. Third, the three groups want to branch out different occupational areas. Fouchh, it was appeared that the health and the newcomer considered "fand y-like atmosphere" and the welfare group emphasized "giving oppochuappees to perform one"s capability" as the major factor for choosing a job. Last y idenpefied were the factors influencing perception of caregiver as a professional occupation. For the health group and the newcomer group, the belief of "people should wnd " respective y explained 7.5% and 3vi9% of the perception of caregiver as a professional occupation. For the welfare group, the belief of "wnd ths social nomigation" explained 6s 6% of the perception of caregiver as a professional occupation(R2=63.6%).
Conclusions: In general and common, three groups made certain level of differences in terms of the reasons for education, social obligation, dedication for work and professionalism. Therefore we suggest the education program for three caregiver trainee groups should be different in terms of curriculum and contents.
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