Abstract

The aim of the study was to examine the self-esteem in decision-making and decision-making styles of the teachers in various branches of Çat town of Erzurum Province, Turkey  in terms of some variables in 2014-2015 year. A total of 153 teachers (84 females and 69 males) (age (Χ = 1.6536±0.72837) from different departments participated in the study. The data collection tool was the Melbourne Decision Making Questionnaire I-II. For detecting the differences, Analysis of variance (ANOVA) test, tukey test and t-test were used. According to the findings, buck-passing, procrastination and hyper vigilance in decisionmaking scores of male were higher than that of female. Significant difference was obtained in teachers’ service year, lesson hours of the teachers and the father’s occupation. On the other hand, no significant difference was obtained in the other variables.

Key words: Teacher, self-esteem in decision making, decision-making styles.