Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effect of
teaching flow on the relationship between director’s servant leadership and early
childhood teachers’happiness.
Methods: The subjects in this study were 241 early childhood teachers in Busan
and South Gyeongsang Province in South Korea. Three different inventories were
utilized. The Servant Leadership Scale, Teaching Flow Scale and Happiness
Scale were used. As for data analysis, SPSS & AMOS 21.0 and PROCESS
macro were utilized.
Results: First, the director’s servant leadership, teaching flow and happiness of
the teachers were all above average, and there was a significant positive
correlation between their total scores of servant leadership, teaching flow and
happiness. Second, The teaching flow was found to have a partial mediation
effect on the on the relationship between director’s servant leadership and
happiness of the early childhood teachers.
Conclusion/Implications: These results indicate that effort to promote director’s
servant leadership and teaching flow is needed to promote early childhood
teachers’happiness.