Abstract

The aim of this study is to reveal the attitudes of students to the teaching profession in terms of self-esteem, altruism, social comparison, life satisfaction, humor style, a five-factor personality types of the students of the Pedagogical Formation Education Certificate Program (PFECP), and to determine the relationships if there is between them. According to the results obtained, we found that though there is no significant relationship between the attitudes of pre-service teachers toward teaching and aggressive and subversive humor, there is a negative relationship between and altruism, social comparison, life satisfaction, extraversion, docility, responsibility, positive emotions, affiliative humor, self progressive,  openness to experience, while positive significant relations between the attitudes of pre-service teachers toward teaching and neuroticism, self-esteem. Life satisfaction, neuroticism, responsibility, positive emotions and affiliative humor was found to be significant predictors of attitudes toward teaching. The other variables were not found to be a meaningful predictor. The total prediction level  was found to be .16.

Key words: Attitudes toward teaching, self-esteem, altruism, social comparison, life satisfaction, humor style, five factor personality types, pedagogical formation education certificate program