The Purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between achievement motivation and stress
coping styles in pre-service early childhood teachers and their achievement motivation and stress coping
styles. The achievement motivation Inventory for pre-service early childhood teachers(Song, 2004), The
stress coping styles Questionnaire(Kim, 1987) and The Children’s social problem solving ability Scale(Huh,
1999) were administered to 195 pre-service early childhood teachers. Collected data were analyzed by
descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation analysis, regression analysis using the computer program,
SPSS/PC 21.0. The results of this study were as follows. First, there were significant positive relationships
among achievement motivation, stress coping styles and social problem solving ability. Second,
achievement motivation and stress coping styles was an important factor to predict social problem solving
ability of pre-service early childhood teachers. Based on these results, suggestions for enhancing the social
problem solving ability of pre - service early childhood teachers, educational and policy support for
improving achievement motivation and stress coping methods were suggested.