EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCIPALS’ ORGANIZATIONAL LONELINESS AND JOB SATISFACTION LEVELS

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the relationship between organizational loneliness and job satisfaction of principals according to various parameters. Descriptive research model is used in the study and universe is consisted from principals who participated in Acquiring Formation Course Management II, organized by Malatya Provincial Directorate of National Education. 233 volunteer principals, who answered the data collection tool properly and completely constituted the sample. at Work Scale developed by Dogan et al. (2009) is used as the data collection tool. Descriptive statistical calculations on the dataset are conducted and the lowest and the highest scores, standard deviation scores and arithmetic means are calculated. Besides these, t-test and one-way variance analysis (ANOVA) are performed through the data obtained. If ANOVA test results with significant differences, the multiple comparison tests are preferred to determine from which group or groups the difference is originated. Scheffe test is used for the multiple comparisons of average scores in case of equal distribution of the group variances. The results of the study reveal that there is a significant and small positive correlation between Organizational Loneliness and Job Satisfaction perceptions of principals. Emotional deprivation and social friendship dimensions correlated at medium-level and positively with organizational loneliness. Social friendship dimension and job satisfaction also correlated positively at medium-level. A significant relationship between organizational loneliness and job satisfaction in the positive direction is another important result of this research. Article visualizations: