The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic review of the previous studies done on the
child-care teacher's turnover intentions. From 2001 to 2011, 33 articles which reforted primary em
pirical data met the criteria for inclusion in the meta-analysis. The results of this study are as follo
ws: First, included in the main factors related to child-care teachers' turnover intentions were a job
-related variable, an organizational internal variable and an organizational external variable. Second,
the most influential protective variable related to the child-care teacher's turnover intentions among
the set of organizational external variables was work-time followed by welfare, education and traini
ng, remuneration, social recognition and promotion system. Third, the most influential protective
variable related to child-care teachers' turnover intentions among the set of job-related variables wa
s teacher efficacy followed by job satisfaction, participation of decision making, performance, workautonomy
and work-professionalism. Fourth, the most influential protective variable related to the
child-care teacher's turnover intentions among the set of organizational internal variables was perso
nal relations followed by relationships with the director and relationships with colleagues. The effec
t size of these variables was large. Fifth, the results of meta-regression analysis revealed that the
survey area and years had no significant effect on overall effect sizes.