“…It is revealed that the individuals who see themselves as self-sufficient in problem solving skills, have higher self-esteem than the ones who do not see themselves as self-sufficient and use more appropriate methods in academic terms in a variety of studies in which problem-solving skills were investigated (Akbağ, 2000;Güven & Akyüz, 2001;Korkut, 2002;Şahin & Özbay, 2003;Katkat, 2003;Bozkurt, Serin & Erman, 2004;Corner, 2004;Saracaloğlu, Serin & Bozkurt, 2005;Öztürk, Sayar, Uhurad & Tüzün, 2005;Çilingir, 2006;İnce & Şen, 2006;Germi & Sunay, 2006;Genç & Kalafat, 2007;Türkçapar, 2009;Küçükkaragöz, Deniş, Ersoy & Karataş, 2009;Kuru & Karabulut, 2009;Bezci, 2010;Uslu & Girgin, 2010;Yavuz, Arslan & Gülten, 2010;Aylar & Aksin, 2011;Yenice, 2011;Pulur, Karabulut & Koç, 2012;Kolayiş, Turan & Ulusoy, 2012;Kuloğlu & Arı, 2014).…”