International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention ISSN (Online): 2319 – 7722, ISSN (Print): 2319 – 7714 www.ijhssi.org ||Volume 5 Issue 9||September. 2016 || PP.63-68 www.ijhssi.org 63 | Page Examination of Emotional Abuse on Physical Education and Sports Teachers Bariş Karaoğlu 1 , Serdar Sucan 1 , Yahya Polat 1 Erciyes University, School of Physical Education and Sport, Kayseri (Turkey) ABSTRACT: Purpose of this study is to make an examination of emotional abuse, which is applied to physical education and sports teachers, in terms of gender, age, education status, working year, employee number in the institution and provinces they work. With this purpose, sampling is consisted with 613 physical education and sports teachers chosen with random method and work in Kayseri, Yozgat, Aksaray, Kirsehir and Nigde provinces. For the gathered datum and independent variances t-test and one-way variance analysis were done. According to results that were acquired from research it was determined that depend on employees’ seniority year, age and working province while there was not a difference at a meaningful level in the point averages of emotional abuse (mobbing) in the work place, there was a difference at a meaningful level found in the point averages of sub dimensions depend on gender, education status, manager gender and employee number in the institution variance. As a result, in dealing with emotional abuse both managers and teachers need to be realized for the importance of this issue. If there are not cautions taken for the emotional abuse it will be spread and harmful. And this situation creates a stressful environment for teachers; decrease their job loyalty, motivation and productivity. For these reasons it is thought that in the schools, managers and teachers are needed to care their emotional atmosphere control, sensitiveness trainings and personal developments. Keywords: Emotional abuse, Physical Education and Sports Teacher I. INTRODUCTION Educators that work in schools it can be said that their problems based on junior-senior factor lead to educators’ unhappiness in their work life and decrease in their dependency levels to the organization. Our age is the age of information and increasing knowledge, skills and behaviors to be gained in learning day by day requires individuals to know effective learning(Demirel, 2015, p. 2291).It can be specified that at the beginning of the studies towards education structure development of human resource. In the institutions that education activities are carried on, teachers’ morale, motivation and psychological situations importantly affects the education environment. The more teachers feel themselves comfortable and happy in the working environments the more positive reflections of this situation increase the education activities’ success. When there is a contrary situation happens, then it cannot be possible to hide this situation from students and presenting a succesfull education.In this process it is accepted that two of the important structures of education systems are teacher and school principal. Accordingly, it has been started to emphasize the key role, importance and responsibility of the school principals (Çelik, 2001). Favorable environmental conditions positively support the development of an individual,whereas adverse environmental conditions may prevent the development of an individual in many ways (Demirel, 2015, p.113).One of the situations that affects the successful education environments negatively; psychological violence that principals apply on teachers. This situation comes up as a statement that is hard to determine in the body of the literature and its meaning is needed to be known clearly for the analysis of the situation if it is psychological violence (mobbing) or not. Emotional abuse is a process that creates a pressure systematically on individual or individuals lead to bore, scaring, threating dangers and they also lead individuals to change their work place or resign from their jobs (Leymann, 1996,p.165-185). In other words, emotional abuse is an undesired lowering towards one or more than one person, aggressive attracting and negative attitudes that lead to create an unhappy working environment. (Einarsen, 1999, p.16-17). Baykal (2005, p.52), defined the psychological violence as applying spiritual pressure to the workers or leading them to do a fault then empowering their status, escaping from their rivals. Tınaz (2006, s.174), expresses the psychological violence notion as surrounding, abuse and bothering or gripping. Leymann defines the emotional abuse notion as “the psychological violence or psycho-terror that is derived with applications that are done to one or more than one person systematically enemy like and unethically(Zapf, Knorz, Kulla, 1996, p.215-237). Emotional abuse is seen with these attitudes; for harming an individual or groups in the organization, disgracing them, superseding, using the power for bad things, swearing, threaten (Bullying at Work, 1999, p.16-17).