Teachers’ Disfunctional Attitudes

In this study it was aimed to analyze dysfunctional attitudes of teachers from the aspect of variables of gender, marital status, institution they teach or work for, service period, status of receiving inservice training, the settlement they’ve taught or worked for the longest period, sports playing, artiness, styles of communication. Subjects were 215 randomly chosen teachers teaching at primary and secondary educational institutions in province center of Erzurum-Turkey within the 2008-2009 academic (school) year. Data regarding dysfunctional attitudes of teachers was obtained through Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS-A) which was originally designed by Weissman ve Beck (1978) and adapted to turkish by Şahin and Şahin (1992). Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS-A) is a 40-item with 1-7 score margin likert type scale which aims to measure patterns of maladaptive thoughts of depressed individuals Personal and professional data about participant teachers obtained through personal information form which was developed by the researchers. For statistical analysis of data obtained. t-test, one way variance analysis (ANOVA) and multiple regression analysis tests were applied. It can be affirmed that assumed precursor variables of gender, marital status, type of institution, service period, status of receiving inservice training, sports playing, artiness and perceived communication styles couldn’t predict dysfunctional attitude scores of teachers at a significant level whereas gender (β=-.138) is the only and the strongest variable to predict dysfunctional attitude scores of teachers at a certain level (t=-1.984, p=.049