The purpose of this study is to investigate the difference of kindergarten teachers'
perceived psychological well-being and collaborative culture of kindergartens according to
teachers' personal and facilities' variables, and to analyze the relationship between
psychological well-being and collaborative culture of kindergarten. Subjects for this study are
307 kindergarten teachers working in public or private kindergartens located in Seoul and
the research tools, Psychological Well-Being Scale, developed by Ryff(1989), and School
Culture Survey tool, developed by Gruenert(1998), was used. The results of this study are
as follows. First, the older teachers are, the stronger autonomy and purpose in life they
have. Married teachers show higher psychological well-being, especially on autonomy,
environmental mastery, and self-acceptance than unmarried teachers. Teachers with graduate
degrees or in graduate schools appear to have higher autonomy than teachers with a
bachelor' degrees. Moreover, teachers working in kindergartens with 4 to 6 classes are
revealed to have higher environmental mastery and stronger positive relations with others.
Teachers who work less than 10 hours a day, are shown to have higher psychological
well-being, especially on environmental mastery and self-acceptance. Teachers with high
salary carry out higher autonomy than those with low salary. Second, teachers who are
more than 35 years old, are married, or have more than 6-year teaching career appear to
perceive collegial support more highly than other teachers. Teachers with higher education
levels show more highly perceived collaborative culture of kindergartens and its
subordinates. Additionally, the smaller scale kindergartens are, the stronger collaborative
culture, collaborative leadership, professional development, unity of purpose, and collegial
support are formed. The less teachers work, the stronger perceptions on collaborative culture
and all of its subordinates except teacher collaboration they have. Teachers with the lowest
monthly wage are shown to have the lowest perceptions on collaborative culture and its
subordinates. Third, there is a positive correlation between psychological well-being of
teachers and collaborative culture in kindergartens. Subordinate factors of psychological
well-being have positive relationships with subordinate factors of collaborative culture, as
well. Especially, teachers' positive relations with others of psychological well-being helps to
improve professional development of collaborative culture.