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This study seeks to analyze the correlation and influence on general mental health of childcare teachers according to their eating habits and impulsive aggressive tendency. For the study, self-filling questionnaire survey was conducted on childcare teachers working in kindergartens in U city from February 15th 2015 to June 20th 2015. For the data analysis, the SPSS WIN 18.0 program was used to conduct frequency analysis, correlation analysis, and linear regression analysis to verify at the significance level of 5%. The results first showed that the sub-factor of eating habit, fasting, has a positive correlation to mental health; on the contrary, the absorption in food, excessive eating, and aggressive characteristics showed not to be statistically significant. Second, the result of verifying the effect of eating habits and compulsive aggressive characteristics on general mental health showed that the socio-demographic characteristic, religion, and the sub-factor of eating habit, and fasting, showed to affect general mental health with statistical significance. The implications of this study are expected to become basic data to improve the eating habits and general mental health of childcare teachers.