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Using social exchange theory as a framework, the current study examined the causal relationship between perceived organizational support and child-rearing attitudes toward children in care among child care workers in Korean child institutional care. It also examined if the workers’ human rights sensitivity mediated the relationship between perceived organizational support and child-rearing attitudes. The participants in the study were child care workers working at 16 child caring institutions and 107 group homes, in three cities in South Korea. A total of 393 completed surveys by the workers was analyzed using structural equation modeling method. The findings were as follows. First, child care workers’ perceived organizational support was directly related to their affective and autonomous child-rearing attitudes. Second, there was an indirect causal relationship between perceived organizational support and affective and autonomous child-rearing attitudes via the workers’ human rights sensitivity. Based on the results of this study, the policy and practical implications for increasing perceived organizational support were discussed.

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