Secondary education teachers' perception of workpalce friendship and its relationship with job satisfaction (Sample of Aydın province)

The purpose of this research was to find out secondary education teachers' perception of workplace friendship and its relationship with job satisfaction. Data was collected by means of Personal Information Form, Workplace Friendship Scale and Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale. In data analysis, descriptive statistical tecniques, parametric and nonparametric tests were used. According to the findings of the research, secondary education teachers' perception of workplace friendship was at the highest level on friendship opportunity and followed by friendship prevalence. General perception of friendship was found relatively higher than the mean. Female teachers' level of perception of workplace friendship was found significantly higher than male teachers'. Single teachers' perception of friendship opportunity was found significantly higher than married teachers. It was determined that, teachers' internal satisfaction was at the highest level and followed by general and external satisfaction. The teachers who are under the age of 35 and who are between the ages of 46 and 50 had significantly higher internal, external and general job satisfaction than the other groups. It was found that, teachers who have 5 years or less experience, between 11 and 15 years of experience had significantly higher internal, external and general job satisfaction than the other groups. It was found that, there was a pozitive medium level relationship between job satisfaction, perception of general workplace friendship and also friendship opportunity. Besides, there was a pozitive low level relationship between job satisfaction and friendship prevalence. In addition, friendship opportunity dimention pozitively predicted job satisfaction on the basis of both general and the dimentions.