예비유아교사의 창의적 인성이 감성지능에 미치는 영향에서 교직적성의 매개효과

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship among the creative personality, emotional intelligence, the teaching motivation, and the teacher efficacy of pre-service early childhood teachers.
 Methods To this end, a survey was conducted on 147 pre-service early childhood teachers in the J area. Pearson correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis and Sobel test were performed using the SPSS 24.0 program.
 Results The research results are as follows. First, as a result of examining the relationships among pre-service early childhood teachers creative personality, teaching motivation, and emotional intelligence, the significant positive correlations were found between each variable. Second, as a result of examining the teaching motivation of job satisfaction on the relationship between creative personality and emotional intelligence of pre-service early childhood teachers, it was found that job satisfaction plays a partial mediating role.
 Conclusions In this study, the meaningful relationship among creative personality, teaching motivation, and emotional intelligence of pre-service early childhood teachers was revealed, and it was confirmed that teaching motivation had a mediating effect on the relationship between creative personality and emotional intelligence. Based on the research results, the understanding of teaching motivation as a mediating factor linking pre-service early childhood teachers' creative personality and emotional intelligence was expanded, and the ways to improve creative personality and emotional intelligence of pre-service early childhood teachers were discussed.