Abstract:

The purpose of present study is to determine the relationship between school managers' levels of managerial resourcefulness and levels of stress and depression experienced. For this reason relational research model was used in the study. The universe of the study constitutes 704 school administrators who served in Elazığ city center and its districts. In the scope of the study, the data was collected from 205 school administrators by using the method of disproportionate element sampling. Managerial Resourcefulness Scale, Stress Scale and Depression Scale were used to collect the data. According to findings; it has been concluded that there is a high level of the managerial resourcefulness impact on stress and depression and while the level of managerial resourcefulness increased, the level of stress and depression decreased. When the significance levels of the regression coefficients are examined, it is seen that the variables of being cautiousness and decisiveness are significant predictors of both depression scores and stress scores.

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