Examination on the relationship between primary-school teachers' mobbing experiences, perceived social-support and job-satisfaction

There are many factors affect people working actively in business life. Mobbing, job satisfaction and perceived social support affect people in every organization. Also, teachers are exposed to such deliberate and systematic negative behavior by the people interacted. It is thought that teachers, who are exposed to mobbing, cannot focus on their works. Besides, their creativity and productivity are affected badly thus they come across health, economic and social problems. In this research, mobbing, perceived social support and job satisfaction are handled at the same framework. The aim is to search whether there is a relationship between these three, or not. The research is in scanning model. The population of this research constituted by teacher working actively at primary schools depended on Ministry of Education in Istanbul. The samples are chosen randomly. 30 schools are chosen and 580 surveys are applied to volunteers. As 153 surveys are invalid, 427 surveys are used. To collect data in need, researcher scanned the literature of field and studied the researches that are conducted within related to pics. At the end of it, a data collecting device is prepared by the help of various sources. To collect data, demographic information form, multidimensional social support scale, mobbing scale and job satisfaction scale are used in this research. The independent variable of this research is mobbing and perception of social support whereas the dependent variable is job satisfaction. The answers of people to the survey are evaluated by the SPSS program. To determine the reliability of the survey Cronbach's Alpha reliability scale is calculated. The data collected in this research are analyzed and by the help of various statistical tests such as correlation , t-test and ANOVA and expert of the field. The results show that there is a negative relationship between social support and mobbing. There is a positive relationship between job satisfaction and social support. Social support and mobbing have a predictive role in teachers' job satisfaction. Keywords 1. Mobbing 2. Job satisfaction 3. Social support 4. Teacher 5. Education