Examining the relationship between conflict management styles and self-esteem of primary and secondary school administrators

The study was conducted to determine the relationship between conflict management styles and self-esteem of school administrators working in primary and secondary schools in Antalya province. The research universe is composed of the primary and secondary school managers in Antalya province and the study universe consists of the primary and secondary school managers in Serik and Manavgat districts. In Serik and Manavgat districts, research was carried out with the participation of 241 people from the school administrators working in 179 official primary and secondary schools. In the research, the entire universe was tried to be reached. In research as a data collection tool "personal information form", "Trakya University self-esteem scale" and "Rahim organizational conflict Scale" were used. Research, Data Analysis, Percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, t-test, one-way ANOVA test, Tukey test was used. The significance level was based on 0.05 level. As a result of the analysis of research data, conflict management styles and self-esteem of the managers have been determined. Conflict management styles and self-esteem scale values used by school principals; age, gender, branch, year of service, year of service as administrator, income group, number of teachers and support staff at school were analyzed. However, the relationship between self-esteem scale values and conflict management styles of school principals was analyzed. As a result of the analysis of the research data, variables such as age, gender, branch, year of service, year of service as administrator, graduate education status, income group, number of teachers and support staff at school, management-related education, conflict management strategies and self-esteem were found to be different.