Examination of self esteem and professional self esteem levels of guidance teachers in terms of some variables

The aim of this study is to examine whether or not guidance teachers' self-esteem and professional self-esteem levels show a significant difference in terms of some of the variables. For this reason, the descriptive research method is used. The samples of the research are composed of 306 guidance teachers who are working in Elazig, Malatya and Diyarbakır. In this study, "Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES)" to measure the self-esteem of guidance teachers, "Arıcak Professional Self-Esteem Scale (PSES)" to measure professional self-esteem of guidance teachers and "Personal Information Form (WEF)" prepared by the researcher have been used. SPSS 16.0 has been used to analyze the data obtained and also Levene's Test of Homogeneity Variance, T-test for Independent Samples, One Way Variance Analysis and Scheffe Test have been used. Also the relationship between two continuous variables, have been measured by the Pearson Correlation Coefficients technique. As a result of the research, it has been found statistically that there is no significant difference both the scores of self-esteem and professional self-esteem of guidance teachers according to the variables of gender, city worked in, bachelor degree graduated, incumbent service time, adequacy of facilities offered, academic education level, membership of the Association of Turkish Psychological Counseling and Guidance, educational stage, and the number of students served of guidance teachers. Additionally, when the variables of field-related publication tracking and residential units of guidance teachers are taken into consideration, although, there is no significant difference in the scores of self-esteem, there are significant differences in the scores of the professional self-esteem. As a result of this study, it has been found that there is a meaningful relationship in positive direction between scores of self-esteem and professional self-esteem of guidance teachers. Various suggestions have been made on the basis of this study.