Reasons for organizing a union, union attitude, union commitment, and life satisfaction of employees in the field of social services

This research examines the reasons for union organization, union attitudes, union commitment and life satisfaction of social workers, psychologists and sociologists working in the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Social Services Branch Directorate. In the study where quantitative research management was preferred, the stratified sample selection method was used to minimize errors and create a sample with a high representation rate. Since the union perceptions, expectations, reasons for union organization and life satisfaction of social workers in this study compared to other professionals (sociologists and psychologists), the universe was divided into layers according to the program graduated. According to January 2024 data, there are 301 unionized professionals (social workers, psychologists and sociologists) within the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Social Services Directorate (approximately 53% of union member professionals are social workers, approximately 12% arepsychologists, and approximately 34% are sociologists). The research group was selected in accordance with the representation rate from these three sub-layers consisting of socialworkers, psychologists and sociologists, based on the proportional stratified sampling method and based on the graduation program, and was limited to 130 people as long as it reached the representation rate (56,2% of the research group was social workers, 36,2% were sociologists and 7,7% were psychologists). In the research, "Resasons of Union Organization", "Union Attitude", "Union Comittement" and "Life Satisfaction" scales were used as data collection tools. According to the research findings, it was determined that the participants' reasons for unionization, union attitudes, union commitment and life satisfaction levels statistically did not differ significantly according to the participants' age, gender, graduate program, education level and time spent in the profession. Acoording , union attitude, union commitment and life satisfaction levels, it was determined that statistically no significant difference was found, and a weak relationship was found between them.