Mediating Role of Dispositional Hope and Life Satisfaction in the Relationship between Teachers' Solution-Focused Thinking and Happiness Cover Image

Öğretmenlerde Çözüm Odaklı Düşünme İle Mutluluk İlişkisinde Sürekli Umut ve Yaşam Doyumunun Aracı Rolü
Mediating Role of Dispositional Hope and Life Satisfaction in the Relationship between Teachers' Solution-Focused Thinking and Happiness

Author(s): Fuat Aydoğdu
Subject(s): Gender Studies, School education, Comparative Psychology, Sociology of Education
Published by: Çukurova Universitesi Tip Fakultesi Psikiyatri Anabilim Dalı
Keywords: Solution-focused thinking; happiness; hope; life satisfaction; teacher;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study was to test a model to determine the mediating effect of dispositional hope and life satisfaction in the relationship between solution-focused thinking and happiness in teachers. The sample of the research is composed of 786 teacher 479 of whom are women and 307 of whom are men working at the preschools, primary schools, middle schools, high schools and Guidance Research Center's in Muş and its districts. The data are accumulated via The Solution-focused Inventory, Dispositional Hope Scale, Satisfaction With Life Scale and he Oxford Happiness Questionnaire Short-Form. The recommended model within the research was tested with structural equation modeling and it was confirmed via acceptable model fit indices. In the model, in regard of the relationship between solution focused thinking and happiness, role of partial mediation of dispositional hope and life satisfaction with the men and whole mediation with the women was detected. In these terms it has been determined with the research that the level of solution focused thinking of teachers is a determiner on the levels of hope and life satisfaction and these two are significant determiners on happiness. The indirect effect between solution focused thinking and happiness, which has been detected within the model is significant.

  • Issue Year: 13/2021
  • Issue No: Suppl. 1
  • Page Range: 337-360
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Turkish