Positive thinking and its relation to self academic motivation and the trend towards teaching profession among the students of education colleges

Abstract

The research aims to know the relation between positive thinking and self academic motivation, trend towards teaching profession. So a sample of (344) male and female student of the morning study of education colleges from the two universities of Baghdad and al Mustansria for the academic year 2012-2013.

So three tools had been used to achieve the procedures of the research which are: the scale of positive thinking constracted by Abdal satar Ibrahim year 2010, the scale of self academicmotivation constracted by (Gottfried) and adapted by Hanan Hussan year 2010, the scale of teaching profession trend constracted by Enayat Zaki year 1974.

And by using the statistical means of person correlation coefficient, T-test of one, and two independent sample, the research come up to the results that indicates the foundation of positive correlation between positive thinking and self academic motivation and the trend towards teaching professions.

For that the two researchers put some suggestions and recommendations.