Abstract
Objectives The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of digital competencies and technological self-efficacy of pre-service early childhood teachers on media critical understanding competency.
 Methods The purpose of this study, the responses of 201 pre-child teachers in the metropolitan area were used as research data. The SPSS 23.0 program was used for the survey response data. Anova analysis was performed on the capacity to understand media critically according to individual and educational experience. In addition, Pearson correlation analysis and hierarchical regression analysis were conducted to find out the impact of digital competency and technology self-efficacy on media critical understanding.
 Results The results of the study are as follows. First, it was found that the media critical understanding competency of pre-child teachers differs depending on the type of school, but there is no difference depending on whether or not media education is completedl. Second, there was a correlation between media critical understanding of pre-child teachers, digital competency, and technology self-efficacy. In Model 1, digital competencies and digital pedagogy among digital competencies, and in Model 2, technology self-efficacy were found to influence media critical understanding.
 Conclusions This is meaningful in that basic data on the direction of education to enhance the critical understanding of media of pre-service early childhood teachers were presented.
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