THE EFFECTS OF STUDENT TEACHERS' PERSONALITY TRAITS & EQ LEVELS ONSTRESS COPING


Onen A. S.

HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, sa.42, ss.310-320, 2012 (SSCI) identifier identifier

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This study aims at revealing the effect of candidate teachers' emotional intelligence levels and personality traits on their way of coping with stress who make efforts to keep pace with the modifying values of life, preserve the basic values and who would play a dominant role in society. In the study, The Functions of Identity Scale is used to reveal 300 candidate teachers' identity functions which is originally created by Serafini et al (2006) and Turkish version is done by Demir (2011); the modified version of Emotional Intelligence Scale is also used to determine the emotional intelligence levels which is modified by Austin et al (2004) and originally created by Schutte et al (1998) and translated to Turkish by Gocet (2006). The last scale used in this study is Inventory of Coping With Stress Attitudes which is originally created by Ozbay (1993) and then adapted to Turkish by Ozbay & Sahin (1997). At the end of this study, candidate teachers' personality traits and emotional intelligence levels and their attitudes of coping with stress are analyzed and commented at all points.