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The main objective of this study is to identify the personal instability levels and critical thinking motivations of the teacher candidates and to determine whether there is a relationship between the personal instability levels and critical thinking motivations of the teacher candidates. Relational scan models have been used in the study. The research study group, a university located in the northwest of Turkey's Faculty of Education has formed 417 last-class teachers candidates who studied in the year 2016-2017 academic. The research has achieved these results. The teaching candidates involved in the research show that they do research and don’t take a hurry when making decisions; the critical thinking motivations are “participate” in the expectations, value/beneficiency and value/beneficiency subdimensions; the value, value/success and value/internal value-interest value are accumulated in the options “successfully agree”. The sub-dimensions of the Personal Instability Measure are significant at the negative middle level between the sub-dimensions of the Personal Instability Measure and the sub-dimensions of the Critical Thinking Motivation Measure and the sub-dimensions of the Value/Valuability Measure are significant at the negative middle level; the other sub-dimensions are significant at the negative low level.

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