The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of preschoolers' mothers’ parentingstrength according to Enneagram personality type. The research participants of this study were 45mothers whose children attended early childhood education institutions located in Seoul in Gyeonggiprovince. In-depth interviews were conducted to collect data, and the content was analyzed.
As for the results of this study, mother's parenting strength had a deep relationship with thecharacteristics of strength. Especially, childhood is when habits are formed, and therefore, themothers of this study showed heavy use of their strength characteristics in accordance with theirpersonality types in order for their children to form proper habits. These results are expected toprovide basic material for understanding parenting behaviors according to mothers’ Enneagrampersonality type, and developing and implementing parent education programs to supportpreschoolers' mothers in the future.