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Primary School Teachers’ Constructive Thinking Styles and Life Conflict
Abstract
The basic purpose of this study is to reveal the existed causal conditions on the theoretical model
generated on the idea that the level of primary school teachers’ life conflict has been influenced by constructive
thinking styles. Research was designed in a causal model intend to define relations between variables. Universe
of the research was 2244 primary school teachers working in 2008-2009 academic years in Ataşehir/İstanbul.
Sampling group was consisted of 334 teachers defined via cluster sampling method. Data were collected with
two instruments. Constructive Thinking Inventory was developed by Epstein (2001) and adapted Turkish
language and culture by Tosun & Karadağ (2008). This Inventory is a five point Likert, seven components, 14
factors and consists of 85 items. Work-family conflict scale was developed by Netemeyer, Boles & McMurrian
(1996) and adapted to Turkish language and culture by Efeoğlu (2006). This scale is a six point Likert, two
factors and consists of 10 items. Data were analyzed with the techniques of Pearson product-moment correlation, multiple linear regression and path analyze. The relations between variables were explained using path diagrams
reflected the results to be connected each others. Findings indicated that the Emotional Coping dimension of
constructive thinking affected the life conflict negatively at the level of -0.38. However, the Esoteric Thinking
dimension affected it at the level of 0.29 as positive.
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Publication Date
December 1, 2010
Submission Date
December 1, 2010
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Published in Issue
Year 2010 Volume: 3 Number: 2