Teachers’ Automatical Thoughts

Teachers’ Automatical Thoughts

ALVER, Birol
ADA, Şükrü
DILEKMEN, Mücahit
AKBABA, Sırrı

In this study it was aimed to analyze automatic thoughts of teachers from the aspect of variables of gender, marital status, institution they teach or work for, service period, status of receiving inservice training, the settlement they’ve taught or worked for the longest period, sports playing, artiness, styles of communication. Subjects were 215 randomly chosen teachers teaching at primary and secondary educational institutions in province center of ErzurumTurkey within the 2008-2009 academic (school) year. Data regarding automatic thoughts of teachers was obtained through Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire (ATQ) which was designed by Hollan and Kendal (1980) and adapted to turkish first by Aydın ve Aydın (1980) and then by Şahin and Şahin (1992) to measure the occurance the frequency of automatic negative thoughts associated with depression. It is a 30-item with 1-5 score margin likert type scale (ATQ-30). Personal and professional data about participant teachers obtained through personal information form which was developed by the researchers. For statistical analysis of data obtained. t-test, one way variance analysis (ANOVA) and multiple regression analysis tests were applied. It can be affirmed that above mentioned assumed precursor variables couldn’t predict nonfunctional attitude scores of teachers at a significant level.

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2009-06

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