The Relationship between helping behavior tendency, empathy and thinking styles of prospective teachers in term of person condition trend and investigation of these variables according to some psychosocial variables

ABSTRACT The purpose of this research was to investigate whether prospective teachers differ with thinking styles,the level of empathy and helping tendency. In addition^ tried to investigate whether there is a relationship between these variables and some psychosocial variables. Four hundreds two students who were 248 girls, 154 boys participated from Dokuz Eylul University Buca Education Faculty at the third and fourth grade levels. Ratıonal-&!p^ıW''al Thinking &4Keyword: Aday öğretmenler = Candidate teachers ; Düşünme = Thinking ; Empati = Empathy ; Eğitim psikolojisi = Education psychology ; Psikososyal değişkenler = Psychosocial variables ; Yardım etme davranışı = Helping behavior tendency