标题：Investigating the relationship between anxiety levels and learning approaches among pre-service teachers Öğretmen adaylarının öğrenme yaklaşımları ile kaygı düzeyleri arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesi
摘要：The purpose of the study is to identify the relationship between pre-service teachers’ anxiety levels and their learning approaches and try to find out if there is a statistically meaningful relationship between their learning approaches and anxiety levels in terms of their gender, field, accommodation and grade levels. The data of study have been gathered through the administration of two scales; Learning Approach Scale adopted to Turkish by Yılmaz and Orhan (2011) and Trait-State Anxiety Inventory adopted to Turkish by Öner and Le Compte (1998). The sample of study consists of 309 pre-service teachers at Afyon Kocatepe University. In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA and Pearson Correlation were used. Findings of the study indicate that female pre-service teachers’ adopt surface learning approach, Science Education pre-service teachers adopt deep learning approach, pre-service teachers staying at dormitories and at home with a friend have higher trait anxiety levels than others, senior pre-service teachers’ trait anxiety levels are higher than freshman pre-service teachers’ trait levels and there is a significant positive correlation between learning approaches and anxiety levels of pre-service teachers.
