Abstract
This study describes the development of the Nursery Teacher’s Reality Shock Scale, which explores structures of both the reality shock-inducing gaps and the reality shock responses. Twenty-seven items constructed the Gap Scale, and extracted 4 factors: “Heaviness of the burden on work”; “Problems in the workplace”, “Inadequacy of competence” and “Mentally isolations”. Ten items constructed the Response Scale, and extracted another 2 factors: “Internal responses” and “Expressive responses”. The subscales of the Gap Scale showed a low-middle level of correlation with the NTSS. The subscales of the Response Scale showed a middle level of correlation with the subscales of the Stress-Reaction Scale in JSS-R. The results of the case-control study design showed that Generalized Self-Efficacy, Pre- School Teacher Efficacy, and Social Skill will prevent Reality Shock.
