INVESTIGATION OF THE WELL-BEING LEVELS AMONG PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS IN TERMS OF PATIENCE, SELF-COMPASSION AND PERSONALITY FEATURES

Ayse Eliusuk ()
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Ayse Eliusuk: Konya Necmettin Erbakan University Education Faculty

No 3906545, Proceedings of Teaching and Education Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: The purpose of the present research is determining the relationships between well-being, patience, self - compassion, and five factor personality traits among pre-service teachers, and finding out whether their patience, self - compassion, and five factor personality trait scores predict their well-being scores. Participants of research were university students from Konya Necmettin Erbakan University chosen by random cluster sampling method. Participants were made up of the total of 225 students, 153 of which were female and 72 were male. In order to determine the well-being scores of students, PERMA well-being scale (Kern, 2015), for Self compassion Scale (Deniz Kesici & Sümer, 2008) and for personality scores Five Factor Personality scale (Bacanli, ?lhan & Arslan, 2009) were employed. The significance of differentiation between the mean score of the Well-Being and gender, age was tested with t-test. Pearson Moments Multiplier Correlation Coefficient was used to determine of relationship among well-being, patience, self compassion and five factor personality traits significantly predict patience. According to the findings of the present research; there were significant and positive correlations between all dimensions of PERMA well-Being and patience; self- compassion in addition to self compassion, patience and PERMA well-being was seen that self compassion and patience significantly predicts well-being. There were significant and positive correlations between all dimensions of PERMA Well- being and patience, self-compassion. There was a significant negative correlation between the students? patience scores and neuroticism dimension of five factor personality traits, where as, there were significant positive relations between extraversion, openness to experiences, agreeableness and conscientiousness dimensions.

Keywords: Well-being; self-compassion; patience; the measurement of well-being; reliability and validity. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 5 pages
Date: 2016-08
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 3rd Teaching & Education Conference, Barcelona, Aug 2016, pages 94-98

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