hossein eskandari; Hamid Darrodi; Farzaneh Bahrami
Volume 11, Issue 35 , April 2015, , Pages 105-121
Abstract
Document of basic evolution of education has described teacher as an example of honesty and knowledge. Authority is one of the key features of teacher that divided into desirable and undesirable ones. Usually, different kinds of authority are divided into two general categories: content-legal and formal-existential ...
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Document of basic evolution of education has described teacher as an example of honesty and knowledge. Authority is one of the key features of teacher that divided into desirable and undesirable ones. Usually, different kinds of authority are divided into two general categories: content-legal and formal-existential as desirable and undesirable ones. This study examined the relationship between types of teacher authority and anxiety, depression and achievement. Two questionnaires were used to collect data: the first one a researcher- made questionnaire to examine teacher’s authority and second one a mental health questionnaire (with two subscales of anxiety and depression). All of the high-school female students in 1393, in Bojnord were the population of this study. 378 students were selected as the sample size. The results showed that there was no significant relationship between formal-existential authority of teachers and achievements of students. But, there was significant positive relationship between this kind of authority and depression and anxiety of students. There was a significant positive relationship between content-legal authority of teachers and students achievements, and there was a significant negative relationship between this kind of authority and depression. The findings had high integrity and were in keeping with our expectations of different types of authority. formal- existential authority as undesirable one had direct relationship with anxiety and depression, and content-legal authority as desirable one had direct relationship with achievement and indirect with depression. Teachers through content-legal authority and their scientific and moral personality, in addition of respecting to students’ independence, can play a role as a desirable example (osveye hasane). On the other hand, teachers through avoiding imposing formal-existential authority can lead educational process toward safe academic achievement, internal motivation and totally toward deeper educational flows.
