Valuable Attitude and Personal Qualities of the Teacher

The issue of studying the valuable attitude to themselves and others associates with the high generality and low operationalization of this construct. We examined 13 operational parameters that reveal the multi-dimensional content of this concept and use correlation analysis to examine interconnections in the structure of the teachers personal qualities. Study sample: 259 female teachers from urban and rural areas. Methods: the Russian version of the CPI and the author's graphical method of studying the valuable attitude to themselves and others. We found 17 valid and reliable (from p≤0,05 to p≤0,001) connections. The "core" of valuable attitude to themselves and others in the structure of the teacher personality includes such parameters as "a tendency to appreciate others "above average" and "ability to assess softly "non-ideal" others". These parameters are most closely associated with "tolerance", "sense of wellbeing", "intellectual efficiency", "achievement through independence." The results are useful for the development of the construct of «valuable attitude», refinement the model of teacher personal competence, and for the psychological support for teachers.

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