Anger in School Managers: Continuity, Direction, Control and Style.

Abstract

School managers undertake an important duty in structuring of education institutions. In the study carried out in this context; anger conditions, continuity, and direction of anger, anger control levels and anger styles of school managers who are the decision makers in schools were examined according to the ages, working periods, duty types, ways to become a manager, perceived socio-economic level, number of children and birth order of the managers. The study was carried out with 113 school managers in total and the data was obtained using “Personal Information Form” and “State Continuous Anger Scale”. The study was performed with relational screening method. Some results of the study can be stated as follows: The continuity of the anger felt by the school managers, repression of the anger, expression of the anger and anger control were found to be at medium level. Anger repression and control levels of the managers show difference in terms of working period. Perceived socio-economic level was found to be a factor in the expression of the anger felt. Birth order was found to be a factor in controlling the anger felt by the managers. Key words: School managers, anger, education