Sosyal Hizmet Uzmanlarının Mesleki Bağlılık Düzeylerinin Bazı Değişkenlere Göre İncelenmesi

Abstract

Objective: This study was conducted to examine work commitment of social workers up to some variables such as gender, age, income level, marital status, working time/duration etc. Method: Study was executed with 153 social workers via relational screening model. Personal information form and Professional Commitment Scale developed by Meyer, Allen and Smith (1993) were used in the study. Findings: Up to the research results; meaningful differences were found within the sub-dimension of professional commitment scale such as emotional commitment and professional commitment permanency with social workers' income (p<0,05). Social workers with lower income than 3000 TL have lower affective professional commitment and continuous professional commitment. In another word, the more social workers' income level arises, affective-professional commitment and continuous professional commitment level increases. According to the variable of organization, there is a meaningful difference found in continuous professional commitment. Therefore, continuous professional commitment of social workers who are working at Ministry of Health were found lower than the participants working for other institutions within the scope of study. Conclusion: According to the results of the study, the professional commitment of the social workers differ according to variable of the income and the institution they work. There was no statistically significant relationship between gender, age, marital status, educational status, service years variables of employment and professional commitment of social workers.

Development and application of the Commitment to Profession of Medicine Scale using classical test theory and item response theory

“…Namely, students with low or high family income were more committed to profession than students with moderate family income. Similarly, Saruc et al ( 41 ) showed that the professional commitment level of social workers increased with the increase in income level.…”

“…Contrary to this, higher commitment levels among men were found among students ( 37 ), administrative staff of a state university ( 38 ), and nurses ( 39 ). In some studies, commitment level did not significantly differ between the sexes ( 40 , 41 ).…”