The relationship between self- esteem level and organizational stress factors, ways of coping with stress of school directors

The main aim of this study is to bring to light the school directors? organizational stress factors, coping strategies with stress used by them, their self esteem level and to find out relationship between them.For this reason the survey research method was choosen. For measurement `Stress Audit?, `Ways of Coping Inventory? and `Self-Esteem Scale? were used, and also some demographic questions were asked as a questionnaire. It was determined that the school directors? organizational stress factors are, `taking on so many responsibilities?, `lack of well determined responsibilities?, `work overload?, `emergent situations on work?, `irregular working hours?, `problems concerned with superiors and unfair valuations?.The results show that participants prefer `self-confident? and `optimistic approaches?. It was found that their self- esteem levels are medium and high levels.There is a positive correlation between source of `stressors? and `helpless?, `submissive? `seeking social support? approaches. On the other hand, there is a negative correlation between source of `stressors? and `self-confident?, `optimistic? approaches.It was obtained that, there is negative correlation between impact of stres sources and their self-esteem level. As the impact of stres sources increases, there is a significant decrease on their self esteem scores.Additionally, there is a significant relationship between school directors? `ways of coping stress? and their self-esteem level. There is a positive correlation between their self-esteem level and `self-confident? `optimistic approaches?. There is a negative correlation between their self-esteem level and `helpless?, `submissive? `seeking social support? approaches.According to the data obtained from this study, there is a positive correlation between seniority -age and `helpless?, `seeking social support? approaches. On the other hand there is a negative correlation between seniority -age and `self-confident? approach.Negative correlation results show that the school directors with less seniority prefer more `self-confident? approach as compared with ones with more seniority.