The effect of school administrators' level of positive psychological capital on school atmosphere (Erzurum province sample)

The purpose of this research is to study the effect of school administrators' positive psychological capital level on school atmosphere. For this purpose, the research aims to determine those elements; the level of positive psychological capital and its components, if there is a meaningful relationship between the perception on positive psychological capital and school atmosphere and if the perception on psychological capital level varies from gender, age, total working experience and socio-demographic characteristics such as monthly income.Correlational survey model is utilised in this reasearch. The participant group of the research consists of 327 school headmasters working at state and private secondary schools in Erzurum. Survey form developed by researcher was implemented to find out participants' demographical data and then "Scale on Positive Psychological Capital" developed by Tösten and Özgan (2014) and "Scale on School Atmospehere" developped by Canlı, Demirtaş ve Özer (2018) were implemented to obtain data from participants. Cronbach Alpha internal consistency parameter in order to measure reliability of "Scale on Positive Psychological Capital" and "Scale on School Atmospehere", skewness and kurtosis parameters to define if both scales show normal distribution and the results of multivariable regression analysis were used in this research. T- test and Anova analysis were utilized in order to detect the differences between administrators taking part in research and group average.Thanks to this research, it is seen that school administrators have a " Very Good " level of psychological capital. Those results have been reached through this research:School administrators' perception level on positive psychological capital differs meaningly in terms of "resilience" sub-dimension of gender variable in socio-demographic characteristics . Age variable has a positive and meaningful correlation on "self-sufficiency" sub-dimension, whereas occupational experience variable does not have a positive and meaningful correlation on school administrators perception of positive psychological capital.Monthly income variable is influential in "opitimism and extroversion" sub-dimensions. It has been detected that school administrators' perception of positive psychological capital affects school atmosphere in a positive way. During the review of literature, it is possible to say that results of this research are parallel to the ones carried out in and out of the country. In conclusion, it is observed that the level of positive psychological capital perceived by school administrators has a positive and meaningful impact on school climate and its sub-dimension.