TITLE: 
                        
                            Theoretical Orientations of Turkish Counselor Trainees: The Role of Thinking Styles, Epistemology and Curiosity
                                
                                
                                    AUTHORS: 
                                            Ilkay Demir, Esra Ismen Gazioglu 
                                                    
                                                        KEYWORDS: 
                        Psychological Counseling; Theoretical Orientations; Psychological Counseling in Turkey; Counseling Orientations in Turkey 
                                                    
                                                    
                                                        JOURNAL NAME: 
                        Psychology,  
                        Vol.3 No.7, 
                        June
                                                        18,
                        2012
                                                    
                                                    
                                                        ABSTRACT: Counselors vary in personality traits, worldviews, epistemic values, cognitive styles, and developmental influences, and these variations in return effect their choice of a guiding theory. This study addresses the variables associated with the theoretical orientations of Turkish psychological counseling students. Participants completed measures of curiosity, thinking styles, epistemological beliefs and a questionnaire on their theoretical choices. Three separate discriminant analysis were conducted to understand which variables differentiate between theoretical orientations. Results of the discriminant analysis revealed that conservative and liberal thinking styles and absorption dimension of curiosity differentiated between theoretical orientations.