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KMID : 1134820180470050589
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
2018 Volume.47 No. 5 p.589 ~ p.598
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Effect of Daycare Center Directors’ Protection Motivation on Their Menu Management Intention: Child Protection Aspect
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Jang Soo-Hyun
Yoon Eun-Ju
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Abstract
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This study examined daycare center directors’ perception of the protection motivation and examined how it affects their menu management intention. Within the protection motivation theory framework, measurement items were developed based on literature reviews, a focus group interview, and experts’ reviews. Among the 299 survey respondents, 99.7% were female, 80.3% were in their 40s or 50s, 76.2% operated private or home daycare centers, and 24.1% had a graduate degree. They believed the most significant advantage that they could acquire by adopting systematic menu management was ‘providing a balanced diet to children’ followed by ‘promoting good eating habits on children’. Before testing the research hypotheses, the validity and reliability of the measurements were obtained by exploratory factor analysis and reliability analysis, and the consistency of the construct was examined by confirmatory factor analysis. Structural equation modeling showed that severity perception and self-efficacy positively affected the director’s menu management intention significantly in the child protection aspect. Therefore, for the purpose of promoting desirable menu management at daycare centers, it is strongly recommended to increase the director’s severity perception (the degree of threats resulting from inadequate menu management, such as malnutrition, inappropriate eating habits and sociality development, etc.) and self-efficacy (how well and easily a director can execute the courses of action required to implement a proper menu management, such as how to obtain a menu prepared by a dietitian, how to control a cook, how to use a standardized recipe, etc.) simultaneously during a compulsory education session or a specialized seminar.
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KEYWORD
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menu management, daycare center, director, severity, self-efficacy
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