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This research aims to investigate the relationship between psychological well-being and altruism levels of workers in education and health areas. The study also aims to reveal the differences between psychological well-being and altruism levels of education and health workers in terms of some variables (occupational field, perceived professional job satisfaction level and perceived professional spiritual satisfaction level). The study's universe constitute the employees of health care (physician, nurse, physiotherapist, health officer) and education (teacher, psychologist, social worker, special education specialist) working in Erzincan province center in 2015. The sample of the study was composed of totally 242 health and education workers, 122 of them are girls (50.4%) and 120 of them are males (49.6%), which their ages range from 24-56 (X ̅ =33,49, Ss= 8,96). Psychological Well-being Scale, Altruism Scale and Personal Information Form were used in the study. According to the results of the research; It has been found that there is a high correlation in the positive direction between psychological well-being and altruism scores of education and health workers. It was also found that there was no significant difference between psychological well-being and altruism scores of education and health workers. Employees with high levels of perceived professional job satisfaction were found to have significantly higher levels of psychological well-being than other employees. Finally, it was found that psychological well-being and altruism scores of education and health workers with higher level of perceived professional spiritual satisfaction were significantly higher than the other levels.

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