Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the tendency of personality strengths and subjective well-being perceived by pre-service childcare teachers, to analyze the influence of personality strengths on subjective well-being to broaden the understanding of pre-service childcare teachers personality strengths, and to provied data for developing childcare and education programs that can enhance personality strengths and use personality strengths suitable for the individual.
Methods: The subjects of this study were to use a personality strength test paper and 114 subjective well-being test papers for child-majoring students at 4-year D university in Busan. The collected data were analyzed by calculating the mean and standard deviation to analyze the degree of perception of personality strength and subjective well-being, and a step-by-step regression analysis was performed to examine the effect of personality
strength on the subjective well-being of pre-service childcare teachers.
Results: First, regarding the personality strengths recognized by pre-service childcare teachers, the virtue of transcendence was the highest, followed by the virtue of humanity. The virtue of justice was at the lowest level.
At the recognition level of 24 detailed strengths, audit showed the highest level, and fairness showed the lowest level. In addition, the subjective well-being of pre-service childcare teachers was high. Second, personality strength was found to have a significant effect on the subjective well-being of pre-service childcare teachers. Among the sub-virtues of personality strength, temerance-related and justice-related virtues had a significant
effect on subjective well-being, and among 24 detailed strengths, forgivenss, love, prudence, and fairness had a significant effect on subjective well-being.
Conclusions: Character strengths of pre-service childcare teachers have a positive effect on subjective well-being, and among the detailed strengths, strength factors such as forgiveness, prudence, love, and fairness contribute to enhancing the subjective well-being of pre-service childcare teachers.