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The purpose of this study is to determine relationships among academic procrastination, mindfulness and metacognitive awareness with its two sub dimensions, knowledge of cognition and regulation of cognition in first year pre-service early childhood teachers. A sample of 145 pre-service early childhood teachers completed the measures of academic pr...

Job Satisfaction, Colleague Relationships and Administrative Support A Study among Early Childhood Teachers: Job satisfaction is one of the most studied attitudes toward work. Job satisfaction may be generally defined as the workers’ positive or negative cognitive and emotional responses towards their work (Greenberg and Baron, 1999). The history o...

This study is designed to explore academic motivation, academic self-efficacy and attitudes toward teaching in pre-service early childhood education teachers and to investigate the relationships among those variables. Data were gathered through questionnaires administered to 251 pre-service early childhood education teachers. Results indicated that...

This study aims to assess locus of control orientations and learning styles in pre-service early childhood teachers. To collect data, Rotter's Locus of Control Scale and Kolb's Learning Style Inventory were administered to 110 early childhood pre-service teachers. Data analysis indicated that locus of control scores were not significantly differed...

The current study examines pre-service teachers' emotional social intelligence with regard to their gender and major. Data was gathered from a faculty of education students majoring in preschool education, secondary school mathematics education and secondary school biology education (N=230). To collect data, Emotional Quotient Inventory (the EQ-i)...

The primary aim of this study was to describe prospective pre-school and biology teachers’ level of metacognitive awareness and epistemological beliefs and to examine differences between the groups. The total of 286 pre-school and biology teacher candidates participated in the study. Participants were asked to complete the central epistemological b...

This study aims to explore the locus of control, epistemological beliefs and metacognitive awareness levels of preservice early childhood education teachers and to determine the interrelations among these variables. 206 teacher candidates have been asked to fill out Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, Central Epistemological Beliefs...

This study examines the relationships between internal-external locus of control and sociotropy-autonomy constructs. Within psychology Locus of Control is considered as an important aspect of personality referring to an individual's generalized perceptions of the outcome of an event is under the person's control (internal locus of control) or beyon...

The main purpose of this study was to examine early childhood education teachers’ attitudes toward teaching, and their relationship to internal-external locus of control and sociotropy and autonomy orientations. The participants in this study were limited to 180 undergraduate students enrolled in early childhood education in three different univers...