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.