The purposes of this study were to investigate the relationships between child-care teachers’ turnover
intentions, and directors’leadership and child-care teachers’psychological well-being, and how do
those factors contribute to the turnover intentions. The subjects of this study are 413 teachers
working at public or private daycare centers in Seoul and Gyeonggi-Do. The main results of this
study are as follows: First, the child-care teachers’ turnover intentions are correlated with their
directors’ leadership and their psychological well-being. Teachers showed lower levels of turnover
intentions when their directors have higher human orientation or goal orientation. However, higher
levels of the director’ bureaucrat orientation was associated with high levels of the child-care
teachers’ turnover intentions. And the child-care teachers’ turnover intentions were lower when
the levels of the teachers’ psychological well-being were high. On the basis of the director’s
leadership by the child-care teachers’ psychological well-being, the higher the directors’ human
orientation and goal orientation leaderships were, the higher the child-care teachers’ psychological
well-being was. Second, their directors’ leadership and their psychological well-being are reliable
predictors of the child-care teachers’ turnover intentions. Thus, the director’s positive leadership and
teachers’ psychological well-being should be promoted in order to decrease the child-care teachers’
turnover intentions.