The survey of teachers' perceptions of behaving in accordance with professional ethical principles alienation from profession in terms of life satisfaction and some other factors

This study aims to investigate teachers' perceptions of behaving in accordance with professional ethical principles, alienation from profession in terms of life satisfaction and some other factors. A correlational survey design was used in the study. The sample consists of teachers in Sivas province working in state schools such as kindergarten, elementary, secondary and high school. The sampling was randomly selected from those teachers and 397 teachers agreed to participate in the study. The study included a personal information form ." Scale of Teachers' Alienation from Profession" was used to find out the level of alienation from profession for teachers."Life Satisfaction Questionnaire" was used to determine the level of satisfaction with life and "Scale of Ethical Behaviours for Teachers " was used to describe teachers' perceptions of behaving ethically. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 15.00 software. During the analysis frequency and percentage tables, item average scores, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis-H test and Spearman Correlational Analysis were used to evaluate the data. The findings indicated that teachers thought they behaved in accordance with the professional ethical principles, having a moderate level of life satisfaction and experiencing a relatively low alienation from their profession along with no significant differences between male and female teachers in terms of alienation from the profession and female teachers emphasizing the ethical principles more than their male colleagues. There was not a difference between two genders in terms of alieanation from profession. However, there was a negative correlation between alienation from profession and teachers' perceptions of behaving in accordance with professional ethical principles and a positive correlation between life satisfaction and teachers' behaving in accordance with professional ethical principles. While teachers' perceptions of their wages and gaining equally for their efforts seemed not to be dramatically affected by their behaving in accordance with professional ethical principles, teachers' ideas about the prestigiousness of their profession and changing their job were highly variable.