Abstract:

The aim of this research is to determine the level of professional anxiety of the teacher candidates who are studying in the departments of the Faculty of Sports Sciences, is the prediction of starting teaching profession and continuing their profession; is to examine the anxieties of the profession in terms of various variables. The universe of  research; Selcuk University, and the sample is constituted.by  88 female, 163 male, total 251 students who are studying at Sports Sciences Faculty 3rd and 4th grade of Selcuk University in 2017-2018 education period,In the research,the eight sub-dimensions which are the professional anxiety sub-dimensions;task-centered anxiety, economic / social centered anxiety, student / communication centered anxiety, colleague and parent centered anxiety, personal development centered anxiety, assignment centered anxiety, integration centered anxiety, school management centered anxiety are evaluated  according to socio-demographic characteristics applying the Vocational Anxiety Inventory and demographic information form containing the questions determined by the researchers as the data collection tool. (Cabı and Yalçınalp 2013) It has been checked that if the data show normal distribution by Kurtosis – Skewness coefficent interval, it was found that the data were distributed normally since the subject interval did not exceed the values ​​of +2.0 and -2.0. (George and Mallery, 2010) Independent group t test was used for binary cluster comparisons since the data showed normal distribution. For this study, the Cronbach Alpha coefficent was calculated as 0.88. Significance level in the study was taken as 0.05. At the  result of the research, no statistically significant difference was observed in all the sub-dimensions of the students who participated in the research, according to the educational level of the parents, age and gender. As a result of examining according to the class level variable; While no statistically significant difference was observed between the Economic / Social Centered Anxiety, Student Communication Centered Anxiety, Personal Development Centered Anxiety, Integration Centered Anxiety and School Management Centered Anxiety sub-dimensions, It was determined that the anxieties of students with 4th grade education level were higher than those of 3rd grade students in colleague and parent-centered anxiety and assignment-centered anxiety dimensions.

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