This study investigated how job-burnout differed according to early childhood teachers’ personal
background, how optimism, emotional intelligence, and job-burnout were related each other, and how
personal background, optimism, and emotional intelligence affected job-burnout. A research surveying
239 teachers of day-care centers and kindergartens in Gyeonggi-do revealed following results: First,
job-burnout of early childhood teachers did not differ according to their age, educational background,
and institution types, but differed according to their teaching career. Second, optimism and emotional
intelligence of early childhood teachers were negatively related to their job-burnout. Third,
job-burnout of early childhood teachers was affected by their optimism, regulations of emotion which
was a subfactor of emotional intelligence, age, and institution types.