The Investigation of Teachers Candidates’ Occupational Anxiety Levels and Their Views on Occupational Anxiety

Abstract

This research was carried out in order to examine the occupational anxiety levels of the teacher candidates in terms of some variables and to determine their opinions about the occupational concerns of the teacher candidates. The research was carried out in the 2016-2017 Academic Year with the participation of a total of 377 teacher candidates studying at Necmettin Erbakan University 279 of whom studying at Ahmet Keleşoğlu Faculty of Education and 97 of whom studying at Pedagogical Formation Program of Necmettin Erbakan University. As a scale, a sub-dimension of 14 items named “Job Oriented Anxiety” of Occupational Anxiety Scale for Prospective Teachers developed by Cabı and Yalçınalp (2013) was used. As a result of the data obtained from the research and analysis of the results, it was revealed that the occasional anxiety levels of the teacher candidates did not show statistically significant difference in terms of gender and graduated high school type, and they showed a statistically significant difference from the other grades and departments. In addition, when the opinions of teacher candidates about occupational anxiety are examined, it is determined that the most worried parts are that they cannot be assigned after graduating from university, transferring their knowledge to students and establishing authority in class. At the end of the research, suggestions related to the occupational anxieties of the teacher candidates were given.

Keywords: Teacher candidates, Occupational anxiety, Pedagogical formation.