Abstract
The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between hopelessness and sensation seeking in secondary school teacher candidates by using the Hopelessness Scale (BHS; Beck, Lester and Trexler, 1974) and the Sensation Seeking Scale Form V (SSS-V; Zuckerman, 1994 ). The participants were 176 student teachers between the ages of 23-34 in a teacher education programme in Akdeniz University in Turkey. The regression analysis treating Hopelessness as the independent variable and overall Sensation Seeking (SSS-V), Thrill and Adventure Seeking (TAS), Experience Seeking (ES), Disinhibition (DIS) and Boredom Susceptibility (BS) as the dependent variables revealed that hopelessness was a significant predictor of disinhibitin. Males reported higher scores of DIS and TAS compared to females.
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