Özet:

Attitude is the tendency that creates the emotions, thoughts and behaviors of a person against a psychological object. Although it cannot be said that only attitudes cause behavior, there is a certain attitude on the basis of behavior. The purpose of this study is to examine pre-service teachers' attitudes towards teaching profession in terms of various personal variables. Descriptive scanning method is carried out with the study universe of the work of three different faculties in Turkey who are undergoing training in the 1st and 4th grade class constitutes 323 teacher candidates. “Attitude Scale of Teaching Profession” developed by Üstüner (2006) was used as data collection tool. According to the research findings, it was found that teacher candidates' attitudes towards teaching profession showed significant differences in terms of gender, age, class level, preference of teaching profession, family support status and status of the teaching profession. According to the results, female teacher candidates had higher attitudes than male teacher candidates. 1st year students have higher attitudes than 4th year students and attitudes decrease as age increases. The attitudes of the pre-service teachers who preferred the teaching profession, who received the support of their families, and who were affected by their teachers in choosing the teaching profession were also at a higher level.

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