Investigation of the effects of school administrators' perceived ethical leadership behaviors on teachers' resilience levels

With this study, which covers the perceived ethical leadership behaviors of school administrators and the psychological resilience of teachers, it is aimed to determine the relationship between psychological resilience, which is a critical factor in adapting teachers to negative professional experiences and difficult work conditions that they may encounter throughout their professional lives, and ethical leadership behaviors perceived by teachers towards school administrators. In the research, a descriptive relational survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, was used. The sample of the research consists of 422 teachers working at different levels throughout the province of Isparta in the 2021-2022 academic year. Appropriate sampling method was used to determine the study group. In this study, "Personal Information Form" developed by the researcher, "Ethical Leadership Scale (ELS)" developed by Yılmaz (2005) and "Psychological Resilience Scale (PRS)" developed by Işık (2016) were used as data collection tools. The data obtained within the scope of the research were evaluated with the SPSS 22 package program, and the data were analyzed with non-parametric methods. While examining the differentiation status of the scales according to the demographic data of the participants, the Mann Whitney U test was used in the comparison of two groups, and the Kruskal Wallis H test was used in the comparison of more than two groups. Spearman-Brown correlation was used in the correlation calculations. The significance level of 0.05 was taken into account in the interpretation of the results. As a result of the analysis made within the scope of the research, a positive and moderately significant relationship was determined between the teachers' views on the ethical leadership behaviors of school administrators and the psychological resilience of the teachers. There is a moderate and positive significant relationship between the sub-dimensions of ethical leadership, communicative ethics, climatic ethics, ethics in decision making, behavioral ethics and psychological resilience. In addition, there is a low level and positive relationship between the sub-dimensions of psychological resilience, the challenge and control dimension, and ethical leadership; A moderate and positive significant relationship was found between the dimension of dedication and ethical leadership. In addition, there is a moderate and positive significant relationship between dedication, which is a sub-dimension of psychological resilience, and communicative ethics, climatic ethics, ethics in decision-making, and behavioral ethics, which are sub-dimensions of ethical leadership.According to the findings obtained from the research, it was concluded that the perceived ethical leadership behaviors of the school administrators contributed positively to the psychological resilience and job satisfaction of the teachers. Depending on the results of the study, various suggestions were presented.