The Relationship Between Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes towards the Teaching Profession and Their Levels of Professional Anxiety: A Case Study of Amasya University

This study was conducted to determine pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward the teaching profession, their anxieties regarding the profession, the relationship between attitudes and anxieties, the degree of this relationship, and whether attitudes toward the teaching profession have an impact on anxiety. In the study, the “Professional Attitude Scale (PrAS)” was used to determine pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward the teaching profession, and the “Professional Anxiety Scale (PAxS)” was used to assess their professional anxieties. The research was conducted on senior pre-service teachers enrolled in undergraduate programmes at Amasya University Faculty of Education. The sample number of the research was selected from among the senior pre-service teachers enrolled in undergraduate programmes by using simple random sampling method, which is a random probability sampling method. The sample consisted of 283 pre-service teachers. A one-way analysis of variance was conducted to determine whether there were any differences in the mean scores between the undergraduate programs for the two scales applied for professional attitudes and anxiety. The Tukey test was employed to identify which undergraduate programs exhibited these differences. Whether there was a difference in the mean scores by gender on the two separate scales measuring professional attitude and anxiety was determined using the t-test. Regression analysis was used to examine the impact of anxiety on attitude. The study also examined the existence of a relationship between pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward the teaching profession and their professional anxieties.