The Relationship between Male Preschool Teacher Candidates’ Attitudes towards Gender Roles and Occupational Anxiety
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The research conducted on the stereotypes that teachers encounter as they pursue their careers indicates that male kindergarten teachers face some dilemmas. The number of males working and thinking of working in this field is increasing day by day. This increase is thought to be related to individuals’ perspectives on gender. Moreover, the way in which male teachers and teacher candidates perceive these roles may have a decisive influence on their future career prospects. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between attitudes of male preschool teacher candidates towards gender roles and their occupational anxiety. This correlational research was conducted with 79 male preschool teacher candidates at three universities in Izmir, Türkiye. The teacher candidates were asked to fill out the demographic information form, the Gender Role Attitudes Scale, and the Occupational Anxiety Scale for Teacher Candidates. The findings showed that the attitudes of male preschool teacher candidates towards gender roles and occupational anxiety scores were at a moderate level. Male teacher candidates from rural areas experience less adaptation-centred anxiety compared to their counterparts from urban centres. There was no significant relationship between the total anxiety scores of male preschool teacher candidates regarding their profession and their attitude scores towards gender roles. In fact, teacher candidates who have more egalitarian perspectives about gender roles feel higher economic/social-centred anxiety.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".