The Relationship Between Authoritarian Personality and Liking of Children Levels of Teacher Candidates

Abstract

The aim of the study is to investigate relationship between authoritarian personality and liking of children levels of teacher candidates. In accordance with this purpose, "Barnett Liking of Children Scale" adapted to Turkish by Duyan and Gelbal (2008) and "Authoritarian Personality Scale" was adapted by Hasta (2002) were used to collect data. The sample is composed of 152 teacher candidates (62 Male, 90 Female) who study in faculty of education at Ondokuz Mayis University, were selected via random sampling method. The data was collected in the beginning of the fall semester of 2012-2013 academic year. Independent variables of the research was determined as gender. The data was analyzed by using the tests are Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA). The research findings show that there was negative and significant relationship between authoritarian personality and liking of children levels of teacher candidates. In addition, found that there was no significant differences between authoritarian personality and liking of children levels of teacher candidates with respect to gender. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Academic World Education and Research Center.