Examination of Teacher Candidates' Occupational Anxiety Levels at Departments of Physical Education and Sports and Fine Arts

Abstract

In this study, we aim to analyze the vocational anxiety level of the preservice teachers. Our study has been conducted with 44 final year undergraduate students enrolled in Firat University Faculty of Sports Science Department of Physical Education and Sports Teaching, and 28 final year undergraduate students of Firat University Faculty of Educational Sciences Department of Fine Arts. A personal information form and “Vocational Anxiety Inventory for Preservice Teachers (VAI)” that was developed by Fuller (1969) and interpreted into Turkish by Cabi ve Yalcinalp (2013) were used to gather demographic information,“gender, age and teaching branches ”, of the participants. The acquired data were assessed through SPSS and the significance level of the statistical data were analyzed in level of p<0.05. Consequently, when evaluated by the general variables and subscales, the vocational anxiety level of preservice teachers has been found out low as it has been expected.