Instrumental role of leadership styles in the relationship of organizational climate and organizational stress in physical education teachers

The aim of this research is to determine the mediating role of leader ship types in the relation ship between organizational climate and organizational stress, according to the perceptions of physical education teachers working in public schools in Adana City Center in the 2020-2021 academic year. The method of the research is the quantitative research method and it is in there lational screening model. The universe of there search consists of physical education teachers working in public primary, secondary and high schools in Adana City Center. Scales were distributed to all teachers in the study universe by the researcher and they were asked to answer the scales in writing. Total of 524 scales returned from teachers and filled in completely were found suitable for evaluation. Leadership styles scale developed by Taş, A., Çelik, K. And Tomul E. (2007), organizational climate scale adapted toTurkish by Tunçay (2013), and Theorell et al. (1988), Yıldırım et al. (2011), the organizational stres scale translated into Turkish was used. The data were analyzed in SPSS Package program. Since the skewness and kurtosis values of the data showed normal distribution, it was decided to perform parametrictests. As a result of the analysis of the data; According to teachers' perceptions, there is a moderately significant and negative relationship between democratic leadership and organizational climate scale, a low significant and negative relationship between liberal leadership and organizational climatescale, a moderately significant and negative relationship between transformational leadership and organizational climate scale. it is seen that there is a moderately significant and negative relationship between leadership and organizational climate scale (p<0.05). It is seen that there is no significant difference between autocratic leadership and organizational climate (p>0.05). There is a low significant and negative relationship between autocratic leadership and organizational stress, a low significant and positive relationship between democratic leadership and organizational stress, a low significant and positive relationship between transformational leadership and organizational stres scale, a low significant and positive relationship between interactive leadership and organizational stress. It is seen that there is a significant and positive relationship at the level (p<0.05). It is seen that there is no significant difference between free leadership and organizational stress (p>0.05). It is seen that there is a low level of significant and negative relationship between organizational climate and organizational stress (p>0.05). Keywords: Organizational stress, organizational climate, leadership styles, mediation effect, physical education teachers' perception of leadership styles. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Yunus YILDIRIM, Physcal Education and Sports Department, Mersin University, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Science, Mersin.