Relationship between administrator anxiety levels of school administrator and problem solving skills

The aim of this research is to determine the relation between the problem solving skills and administrator anxiety levels of school administrators.The population of the research is formed by the administrators (director, chief assistant, vice director) who work for primary and secondary education schools of Ministry of Education in towns of Kırşehir and Kırşehir city center. Since it has been possible to reach the administrators in population of the research, sampling is not used; study is carried on the population. The population of the research is formed of 310 school administrators.This study is a descriptive research. It is carried out by scanning model. As for the data of the research, "Personal Information Form",which was develeoped by the researcher is used in order to gather information about the independent variables of the research, "Administrator Anxiety Scale" which was developed by Şahin (2011) is used in order to determine the anxiety levels of the administrators, and "Problem Solving Inventory" which was developed by Heppner and Petersen (1982) and adopted to Turkish by Şahin and Heppner (1993) is used to determine the levels of problem solving skills.Arithmetic mean ( ), standard deviation (Ss), T test, variance analysis (ANOVA), correlation test (r), Scheffe test are applied on the data gathered in the research. p<.05 level is approved for the meaningfulness tests.As the result of the research, it is found out that administrator anxiety level in sub dimension in administration process of the school administrators is high in total score; in the sub dimension of workload it is medium level. It is found of that there is a meaningful relation between the sub dimension of workload anxiety and age, duty and administration seniority of the school administrators; the sub dimension of workload and total score of administrator anxiety and occupational seniority; sub dimension of administration process anxiety and the number of the students; on the other hand, there is not a meaningful relation between sex, field of study, educational status, the number of attendance to seminars or courses, the location of school, the residence of the administrators, the type of the school and the variables of personnel numbers and the total score of administrator anxiety and sub dimensions.The levels of problem solving skills of the school administrators are found high in the sub dimensions of quick-tempered approach, thinking approach, timid approach, evaluating approach, self-confident approach, planned approach and also in total score of problem solving skills. It is determined that there is a meaningful relation between the problem solving skills of the school administrators and the total score of sex, duty, number of students, number of personnel; and there is not a meaningful relation between the total score of problem solving skills and age, educational status, the number of attendance to seminars or courses, the occupational seniority, the seniority of administration, the number of the students.It is found out that there is a meaningful relation in a highly positive way between the administrator anxiety levels of school administrators and problem solving skills with timid sub dimension and administration process anxiety sub dimension; workload anxiety sub dimension and the total score of administrator anxiety; on the other hand there is a lower meaningful relation in a negative way between the total score of problem solving and administration process anxiety sub dimension score.Keywords: School Administrator, Administrator Anxiety, Problem Solving, Pre-school, Primary School, Secondary School.