The relationship between hopelessness and sensation seeking in secondary school teacher candidates

Ongen D. E.

4th World Conference on Educational Sciences (WCES), Barcelona, Spain, 2 - 05 February 2012, vol.46, pp.3021-3025

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • Volume: 46
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.06.002
  • City: Barcelona
  • Country: Spain
  • Page Numbers: pp.3021-3025
  • Keywords: Adolescence, identity styles, self-criticism, adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism
  • Akdeniz University Affiliated: Yes

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. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Huseyin Uzunboylu