MOBBING PERCEPTION OF TEACHERS AND ACADEMICIANS IN TURKEY: A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS AT PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

The aim of this study is about determining the mobbing perceptions of teachers and academicians in Turkey by a survey applied all around the country. The results were acquired from the questionnaire forms that sent teachers and academicians who have been working at public schools and universities in Turkey. The sample consisted of 1477 participants. Viewed from a wide perspective, it was aimed to provide information about exposing types of mobbing, pieces of evidence about differences between genders and occupations by determining mobbing perception of teachers and academicians. Therefore, public and organizational authorities in schools and universities can decide what they must do for preventing mobbing and, how they must generate or form policies and political decisions about preventing mobbing by this information. There was some information acquired through the results of this study. The first information acquired is perception differences of occupations and genders about mobbing in the whole research group. The second one is perception differences for genders about mobbing in same occupational group and finally perception differences of occupations about mobbing in a same-gender group.