Abstract

Abstract In this study the effects of pre-school teacher's self-esteem on teacher attitudes was analyzed. The data collection tools used in the study were the Teacher Attitude Scale for Pre-School Teachers developed by Bilgin (1995) and the Self-Esteem Scale developed by Aricak (1999) . The tools were completed by 307 pre-school teachers in the second half of 2007-2008 academic year. It was studied whether a meaningful difference was caused in the subdimensions of the two tools by the variables of age, attending graduate school, being satisfied with income, marital status, intentional choice of the teaching profession, being content with the profession, and having in-service training. In order to test this arithmetic means, one-way ANOVA, independent groups t-test and Pearson Moments Correlation were used. All statistical analyzes in the study were made by using the SPSS package program. The level of significance was set at minimum .05. The results showed a weak positive relationship between pre-school teacher's self-esteem and teacher attitudes.

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