Anxiety levels of teachers regarding physical violence and opinions of teachers who experienced physical violence

This study aims to examine teachers' anxiety levels about physical violence according to ‎numerous variables and to reveal how teachers who have been subjected to physical violence in their ‎professional lives are affected by violence. In the research, a sequential explanatory design, one of the ‎mixed method designs, was used. The quantitative phase of the study, in which the descriptive survey ‎model was used, was carried out with the participation of 657 teachers and administrators working in ‎high schools in the province of Siirt and its districts in the 2019-2020 academic year. In the qualitative ‎phase of the study, interviews were made with 10 teachers and administrators who experienced physical ‎violence in their professional life. The quantitative data of the study were obtained using the developed ‎Physical Violence Anxiety Scale (FVAS), and the qualitative data were obtained using the developed semi-‎structured interview form. For the analysis of quantitative data, descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ‎analysis of variance, Kruskall Wallis test and Mann Whitney U Test were used. In addition, Tukey HSD test, ‎which is one of the multiple comparison tests, was also used. Qualitative data, on the other hand, were ‎described by using the descriptive and content analysis.‎ According to the results of the quantitative data of the study, it was determined that the ‎anxieties, exposure anxiety and support perceptions of the teachers and administrators working in high ‎schools were at a high level, and their negative outcome anxieties were at a very high level. The negative ‎outcome anxiety and support perceptions of the teachers and administrators differ according to the ‎variables of gender, workplace and school type. The negative outcome concerns of the teachers and ‎administrators differ according to the seniority variable. The concerns of the participants in the totality of ‎the scale are different according to the hometown variable. It was determined that students and parents ‎were the people with whom the participants mostly experienced physical violence anxiety.‎ In the qualitative phase of the study, it was determined that teachers were mostly exposed to ‎physical violence by students. Besides, there are also teachers who are subjected to physical violence by ‎parents, administrators and other employees. Teachers who have experienced physical violence have ‎experienced various personal, emotional, family, professional and social problems. While none of the ‎participants who experienced physical violence received professional support, some of them received ‎environmental support.‎