ERIC Number: EJ945112
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Jan
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0742-051X
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Prospective Teachers' Future Time Perspective and Professional Plans about Teaching: The Mediating Role of Academic Optimism
Eren, Altay
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, v28 n1 p111-123 Jan 2012
This study aimed to examine the mediating role of prospective teachers' academic optimism in the relationship between their future time perspective and professional plans about teaching. A total of 396 prospective teachers voluntarily participated in the study. Correlation, regression, and structural equation modeling analyses were conducted in order to examine the mediating role of academic optimism. Results demonstrated that the relationships between future time perspective and planned effort, planned persistence, and professional development aspirations were significantly and fully mediated by academic optimism; whereas the relationship between future time perspective and leadership aspirations was not. (Contains 1 figure and 7 tables.)
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Time Perspective, Intention, Occupational Aspiration, Student Motivation, Leadership, Self Concept, Regression (Statistics), Preservice Teacher Education, Predictor Variables, Correlation, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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