Factors Affecting Teacher Happiness and Commitment in Turkish Private Schools

Sema İncekara's dataset examines the relationship between organizational happiness and commitment among private school teachers in Türkiye. It contains quantitative survey data from 299 teachers and qualitative interview data from eight teachers, collected via a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-04.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between teacher happiness and organizational commitment based on survey constructs.
• Analyzing factors that enhance or reduce teacher commitment based on qualitative themes like positive emotions and supportive work conditions.
• Investigating the differences between affective, continuance, and normative commitment levels among private school teachers.

Strengths

• Includes both quantitative (299 respondents) and qualitative (8 interviews) data strands.
• Data is structured via a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, allowing for triangulation of findings.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope and likely a summary or processed results.
• Geographic scope is limited to private schools in Türkiye, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Sema İncekara via figshare.

Collection Method

Sequential explanatory mixed-methods study: quantitative survey and qualitative interviews.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026 05 04 17 23 06; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Private schools in Türkiye.