Investigation of the Relationship between Social Studies Teacher Candidate's Unemployment Worries and Their Attitudes toward Teaching Profession

This study aims to determine the levels of unemployment worries of social studies teacher candidates and 15.03.2019 their attitudes towards the teaching profession in terms of various variables and to investigate the relationship between their unemployment worries and their attitudes toward teaching profession. This study was Accepted: conducted in accordance with the relational screening model. As a result of the study, it was found that social 24.07.2019 studies teacher candidates' attitudes towards teaching profession differed significantly in favour of female teacher candidates, low-grade teacher candidates and teacher candidates with higher GPA. Also, it was found Online First: that social studies teacher candidates' unemployment worries were significantly higher in 4th grade teacher 26.07.2019 candidates but did not differ significantly by gender and GPA variables. In addition, the findings of the study showed that there were significant negative relationships between the sub-dimensions of unemployment Published: worries and attitudes towards teaching profession and there was a negative, medium level significant 31.07.2020 relationship between teacher candidates' general unemployment worries and their attitudes towards teaching profession. Moreover, it was determined that unemployment worries of the 4th grade social studies teacher candidates were significantly higher than the second-grade teacher candidates, whereas their attitudes towards teaching profession were significantly lower. In conclusion it is thought that the findings and negative relationships determined in this study provide strong clues suggesting that social studies teacher candidates' unemployment worries negatively affect their attitudes towards teaching profession.