Covid-19 Pandemisi Sürecinde Çalışan Bireylerin Depresyon ve Öfke Düzeyleri: Bir Nedensel Karşılaştırma Araştırması

Year 2022, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 177 - 188, 01.10.2022

Haydeh Faraji , Pırıl Bilger , Kübra Utar

Abstract

Çalışan bireyler; çalıştıkları ortamla ilgili olabilecek depresyon ve öfke gibi psikolojik sorunlardan büyük ölçüde muzdarip olabilmektedir. Bu durum özellikle Covid-19 koşullarında belirgin hale gelmiştir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, özel ve kamu sektörü çalışanlarının depresyon ve öfke düzeylerini ve bu düzeylerin cinsiyet değişkeni ile karşılaştırmaktır. Çalışıyor olma kriteri gözetilerek basit seçkisiz örnekleme yöntemi ile kamu ve özel sektörden 288 katılımcı belirlenmiş ve nedensel karşılaştırma modeli kullanılmıştır. Katılımcıların “Sosydemografik Veri Formu”, “Beck Depresyon Envanteri (BDE)”, “Sürekli Öfke İfade Envanteri (STAEI)”ne verdikleri yanıtlardan elde edilen veriler, aralarındaki ilişkilerin belirlenmesi adına, SPSS-17 ile Pearson Korelasyon Analizi, Bağımsız Örneklemler T-Testi ve Tek Yönlü Varyans Analizi (ANOVA) ile analiz edilmiştir. Çalışmanın sonuçlarına göre, özel sektör çalışanlarının, depresyon ve öfke düzeylerinin kamu sektörü çalışanlarından daha yüksek olduğu görülmüştür. Hem özel sektör hem de kamu sektörü çalışanlarının depresyon düzeyleri, öfke düzeyleri ile pozitif, öfke kontrol düzeyleri ile negatif bir ilişkiye sahiptir.

Keywords

Kovid-19, depresif bozukluk, öfke, kaygı

Depression and Anger Levels of Individuals Working During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Causal Comparative Research

Abstract

Employees may suffer greatly from psychological issues such as depression and anger as a result of their workplace environment. This has become particularly evident in the conditions of Covid-19. Whit this study is aimed to compare the levels of depression and anger among employees of the private and public sectors. 288 participants from the public and private sectors were determined by the simple random sampling method, considering the criterion of being employed, and the causal comparative model was used. The data which optained from the answers of participants to “Sociodemographic Data Form” “Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)”, “State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAEI)” analized by SPSS-17 with Pearson Correlation Analysis, Independent Samples T-Test and One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to determine the relationship variables. According to the results of the study, private sector employees compared to public sector employees; depression and anger levels were found to be higher. Depression levels of both private and public sector employees has a positive correlation with anger levels but a negative correlation with their anger control levels.

Keywords

covid-19, depressive disorder, anger, anxiety

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