Abstract:

The aim of this study is to study whether the happiness of teachers differs according to the variables of psychological stability, gender, civil status, field of duty, service time, number of school students and book reading status. The examples of the study consist of 169 women (41.3 percent), 240 men (58.7 percent) and a total of 409 teachers working in high schools in the central district of Malatya or Battalgazi. The study applied to teachers, "Personal Information Form", "Oxford Happiness Scale Short Form" and "Short Psychological Sustainability Scale". In the analyses made, the T-Test for binary variables and the One Direction Variance Analysis (ANOVA) for multiple variables were used with the LSD technique. Research finds that there is no significant difference for happiness in terms of gender, civil status, field of duty and service time. Other variables have been found to have a meaningful relationship between the status of book reading and the number of school students and happiness. Between psychological strength and happiness. There are 48 correlations, and it is also found that psychological stability consists of 24% happiness. The results of the research were discussed in accordance with the relevant literature and recommendations were presented.

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