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[in Japanese]

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In Japan, there is a problem of lack of nursery teachers. One of the conceivable reasons is early turnover caused by reality shock. Reality shok is caused by large gaps between their expectations before employment and their experiences on actual job, and it causes various stress reactions. Reality shock felt by Japanese professional person had been researched mainly about nurses. However, a few research about the nursery teacher exists. We intended to reveal various aspects of reality shock experienced by nursery teachers. We interviewed 8 members of the nursery teachers who were employed less than a year. We carried out the following procedures: Creating verbatim records from participant's remarks, separation of contents from verbatim records, and classification of separated contents from the aspects of reality shock.

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