PERSONAL TRAITS OF TOURISM STUDENTS: AN EVALUATION FOR TOURISM EDUCATION AT UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL IN TURKEY

University preference is one of the most important determinants of an individual's business life. In this respect there are many elements to be considered when making department preferences in the university. One of these elements is an individual's personality. The department preference a...

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Autores principales:	Yasin KELEŞ, Melike ÇAKIR KELEŞ
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Publicado:	Fırat University 2019
Materias:	tourism tourism education tourism profession personality traits Social Sciences H Social sciences (General) H1-99
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:3383274a0a644e36bb3fbbb57586d0982021-11-24T09:20:44ZPERSONAL TRAITS OF TOURISM STUDENTS: AN EVALUATION FOR TOURISM EDUCATION AT UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL IN TURKEY2148-416310.9761/JASSS7415https://doaj.org/article/3383274a0a644e36bb3fbbb57586d0982019-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jasstudies.com/index.jsp?mod=tammetin&makaleadi=243616783_28-Yrd.%20Do%C3%A7.%20Dr.%20Yasin%20Kele%C5%9F.pdf&key=28607https://doaj.org/toc/2148-4163University preference is one of the most important determinants of an individual's business life. In this respect there are many elements to be considered when making department preferences in the university. One of these elements is an individual's personality. The department preference an individual makes in accordance with their personality traits plays an important role in the education process and their employment in the field they trained as well as the success in business life. It is important for the tourism professionals to have certain personality traits , because it is required to interact with people from different cultures, communicate well with them and displaying emotional effort. The purpose of this research is to determine the personality traits of the students who are studying at undergraduate level in Turkey and to present suggestions in the future of tourism education. In this context, a questionnaire consisting of five dimensions including openness, extroversion, self-discipline, compatibility and emotional balance was applied to 828 students who had undergraduate tourism education in 8 universities within the framework of five factor personality theory. The obtained data were analyzed with statistical package program. According to analysis, it is found that experiential openness and self-discipline dimension express the highest personality trait, while the lowest personality trait is the emotional balance dimension. The results of the t test and the one-way analysis of variance for the independent samples in order to determine the differences according to the demographic characteristics of the students revealed that the self discipline dimension differs according to the education class and the emotional balance and the experiential openness dimensions differ according to the income status of the families of the students. The findings of the study and its results have been evaluated in the context of the future of tourism education.Yasin KELEŞMelike ÇAKIR KELEŞFırat Universityarticletourismtourism educationtourism professionpersonality traitsSocial SciencesHSocial sciences (General)H1-99DEENFRTRJournal of Academic Social Science Studies , Vol 10, Iss 62, Pp 417-428 (2019)
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spellingShingle	tourism tourism education tourism profession personality traits Social Sciences H Social sciences (General) H1-99 Yasin KELEŞ Melike ÇAKIR KELEŞ PERSONAL TRAITS OF TOURISM STUDENTS: AN EVALUATION FOR TOURISM EDUCATION AT UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL IN TURKEY
description	University preference is one of the most important determinants of an individual's business life. In this respect there are many elements to be considered when making department preferences in the university. One of these elements is an individual's personality. The department preference an individual makes in accordance with their personality traits plays an important role in the education process and their employment in the field they trained as well as the success in business life. It is important for the tourism professionals to have certain personality traits , because it is required to interact with people from different cultures, communicate well with them and displaying emotional effort. The purpose of this research is to determine the personality traits of the students who are studying at undergraduate level in Turkey and to present suggestions in the future of tourism education. In this context, a questionnaire consisting of five dimensions including openness, extroversion, self-discipline, compatibility and emotional balance was applied to 828 students who had undergraduate tourism education in 8 universities within the framework of five factor personality theory. The obtained data were analyzed with statistical package program. According to analysis, it is found that experiential openness and self-discipline dimension express the highest personality trait, while the lowest personality trait is the emotional balance dimension. The results of the t test and the one-way analysis of variance for the independent samples in order to determine the differences according to the demographic characteristics of the students revealed that the self discipline dimension differs according to the education class and the emotional balance and the experiential openness dimensions differ according to the income status of the families of the students. The findings of the study and its results have been evaluated in the context of the future of tourism education.
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author	Yasin KELEŞ Melike ÇAKIR KELEŞ
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title	PERSONAL TRAITS OF TOURISM STUDENTS: AN EVALUATION FOR TOURISM EDUCATION AT UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL IN TURKEY
title_short	PERSONAL TRAITS OF TOURISM STUDENTS: AN EVALUATION FOR TOURISM EDUCATION AT UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL IN TURKEY
title_full	PERSONAL TRAITS OF TOURISM STUDENTS: AN EVALUATION FOR TOURISM EDUCATION AT UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL IN TURKEY
title_fullStr	PERSONAL TRAITS OF TOURISM STUDENTS: AN EVALUATION FOR TOURISM EDUCATION AT UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL IN TURKEY
title_full_unstemmed	PERSONAL TRAITS OF TOURISM STUDENTS: AN EVALUATION FOR TOURISM EDUCATION AT UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL IN TURKEY
title_sort	personal traits of tourism students: an evaluation for tourism education at undergraduate level in turkey
publisher	Fırat University
publishDate	2019
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PERSONAL TRAITS OF TOURISM STUDENTS: AN EVALUATION FOR TOURISM EDUCATION AT UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL IN TURKEY

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