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

39The student teachers were from various universities such as Istanbul(N=93, 24%), Bogazici (N=77, 19%), Yildiz Technical (N=75, 19%),Fatih (N= 74, 19%), and other (N=77, 19%) universities. The studentteachers were also from various study fields such as Mathematics andSciences (N=143, 36%), Language (N=88, 22%), Business, Economy,and Administration (N= 71, 18%), Engineering and Architecture (N=42,11%), Social Sciences (N=28, 7%) and other fields (N= 24, 6%). Theuniversities and also the study fields of students which had less than 15students were compounded as „other‟ for the purpose of analysing data forthe present study.MeasuresTSI, which was developed by Sternberg and Wagner based on Sternberg's(1988; 1997) earlier theory of mental self-government, was used toexamine the nature of TS of student teachers. In addition to the inventory,participants were asked to complete a subject information sheet toexamine the relationships between the TS and the student teachers‟demographic characteristics such as gender, age, educational level, typeof university attended, and field of study attended.The inventory is a self-report test with 104 items, which contains 13subscales, each of which has eight items. It was designed to assess fivedimensions of mental self-government: functions, forms, levels, scope,and leanings. Participants were asked how well each item describes themand were asked to rate themselves on a seven-point Likert scale rangingfrom 1 to 7 (1 = not at all well, 7 = to extremely well) in order to assessone of the 13 TS defined in the theory of mental self-government . In theAppendix A, a brief description of the key characteristics and sample itemof each style is given.Procedure