KISA BAŞLIK: DÜŞÜNME STİLLERİ ENVANTERİ - Prof.Dr. Seval Fer

36subscales was between 0.63-0.78. The results were discussed in terms ofthe validity and reliability of the Turkish version.Key WordsThinking styles, psychological counseling and guidance, scaledevelopment, validity and reliability.IntroductionThe TSI was developed by Sternberg and Wagner, which is based on theearlier theory of mental self-government formulated by Sternberg (1988;1997), representing stylistic aspects of intellectual functioning. The basicassumption of the theory is that people, like government and societies,have preferences in how they use their skills and how they govern theirthought processes to manage their everyday activities; organize or governthemselves and their mental processes and establish systems andorganizations for this governance. In Sternberg's theory, mental selfgovernmentis used to portray how the human mind works. Thus, thereare different ways of managing people's mental activities, within theschool and without. These different ways of managing people's activitiesare defined as TS (Sternberg, 1988; 1994; 1997; Sternberg & Grigorenko,1997). Styles are thought to be distinct from abilities, and to involvepreferences, not necessarily conscious, in the use of whatever abilities onehas. It is not connected solely with ability, but rather, a preferred way ofexpressing or using one or more abilities. (i.e. Armstrong, 2000; Cano-Garcia & Hughes, 2000; Grigorenko & Sternberg, 1997; Sternberg, 1997;Zhang, 2000; Zhang & Sternberg, 1998; 2000). In the theory, Sternbergproposes 13 TS, which fall under five dimensions of mental selfgovernance:functions, forms, levels, scopes, and leanings.The TSI within the framework of Sternberg's theory of mental selfgovernmentwas selected to asses TS of student teachers for the currentresearch for an important reason. The theoretical constructs as well as the