The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship among beginning early childhood teachers’
stress coping strategies, role performance, and self leadership. The subjects in this study were 491
beginning early childhood teachers working in kindergarten and child care centers across the
country. Stress coping strategies questionnaire(Chang-Soon Park, 2005) and role performance
questionnaire(Bog-Mae Park, 2011), and self-leadership questionnaire(Dong-Hyen Park,2014) were
used for this study. For the research analysis, frequency, Cronbach's α coefficient, and Pearson's
correlation were calculated and regression analysis were conducted. The results are as follows.
Firstly, it was revealed that passive stress coping strategies does not have statistically meaningful
influences on role performance, but active stress coping strategies have statistically meaningful
positive influences on role performance. Also, 491 beginning early childhood teachers' active stress
coping strategies have statistically meaningful positive influences on role performance through the
mediation of self leadership. That is, the results explain that the higher the self-leadership of
beginning early childhood teachers is, the higher the role performance that they have experienced is.
It shows that beginning early childhood teachers’self leadership mediates partially between active
stress coping strategies and role performance. Through this study, it is possible to provide basic
information to configure the subject content that enhance their self-leadership and develop active
stress coping attitudes in a curriculum for beginning early childhood teachers.