The purpose of this study was to redefine and validate the motivational
self-concept for child-care teachers. Based on related researches, items
were remodified to be good enough to use for studying child-care
teachers' motivational self-concept. Redefined items were analysed by
factor analysis and validated by use of child-care teachers' professional
recognition and their ego-resiliency. Researchers have garnered data from
321 child care teachers as convenience samples who are engaged in child
care centers in Seoul and Kyunggi province by using questionnaire
research methods. We have eliminated questions that are .40 below
communality, questions by conducting exploratory factor analysis. As a
result, 6 factors and 23 items were selected; 6 factors have indicated that
it explained 77.12% of total variate motivational self-concept rating scale
and α of Cronbach that of total items indicated acceptable level. After
examining relevancy of child-care teachers' professional recognition and
ego-resiliency to verify compliant feasibility of the motivational
self-concept rating scale, the relation between motivational self-concept
and professional recognition was .604(p<0.001) indicating significant static
correlation and the relation between motivational self-concept and
ego-resiliency was 4.456(p<0.01) indicating significant static correlation.
Through this result, it is verified that motivational self-concept rating scale
has compliant feasibility in professional recognition and ego-resiliency.