Analysis of empathetic tendencies and conflict management strategies of teachers working abroad

Abstract

In this research, empathetic tendencies and conflict management strategies of teachers that were appointed by the Ministerial Common Culture Commission to work in the Northern Cyprus Turkish Republic (TRNC) while still working in schools governed by the Republic of Turkey Ministry of National Education within the scope of overseas assignments were investigated according to various different variables. The universe of this research consists of 189 teachers working in different levels and types of schools in the TRNC. In the study, no sample selection was made, but rather it was aimed to reach the entire universe. This research is a descriptive quantitative study that has been studied with the relational scanning model. “Empathetic Tendency Scale” and “Conflict Management Strategies Scale” were used as data collection tools in the study. The research data were analyzed with SPSS Statistics 24 program, t test; One Way Analysis of Variance, Tukey HSD and Pearson Correlation were applied. In the analysis of the data, the significance level was determined as .05. As a result of the research, it was determined that there is a significant difference in favor of women in terms of the gender variable in the empathetic tendency levels of the teachers working abroad. It was found that there is a significant difference in favor of teachers aged 41 and over in the compliance strategy among the conflict management strategies used by teachers. In addition, it was found that the teachers who participated in the research used the strategy of integration the most and the avoidance strategy the least; it was found that there was a significant relationship between teachers' empathetic tendencies and strategies of integration, compromise, compliance, and domination.