Primary School Teachers’ Constructive Thinking Styles and Life Conflict

Volume: 3 Number: 2 December 1, 2010
  • Nuri Baloğlu
  • Sedat Yüksel
  • Engin Karadağ
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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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Nuri Baloğlu This is me

Sedat Yüksel This is me

Engin Karadağ This is me

Publication Date

December 1, 2010

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December 1, 2010

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Year 2010 Volume: 3 Number: 2

APA
Baloğlu, N., Yüksel, S., & Karadağ, E. (2010). Primary School Teachers’ Constructive Thinking Styles and Life Conflict. Journal of Theoretical Educational Sciences, 3(2), 83-99. https://izlik.org/JA95ED23CK