Teachers’ Well-Being Levels by Gender and Marital Status: A Meta-Analysis Study

The study's main purpose is to reveal the effect of gender and marital status variables on teachers’ well-being levels. Master's and doctoral dissertations and articles on the subject of research in Turkey between the years 2011-2022 constitute the primary data source of this study. In order to reach the relevant studies, the keyword "well-being" was searched in Turkish and English from the Council of Higher Education Thesis Center, ERIC, ULAKBİM, and Google Scholar databases. There were 62 studies for the gender variable and 36 for the marital status variable out of 82 studies on the research subject. The Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Version 2.2.064 (CMA) program was used to analyze the data. The analysis results showed that there was no publication bias in the individual studies in the study for all variables. The analysis made according to the random effects model revealed that the overall effect size of the gender variable (d=0.05) and the effect size of the marital status variable (d=-0.12) on teachers’ well-being levels were weak and insignificant. As a result of moderator analyses for all variables, statistically significant inconclusive results have been achieved. The findings of the research showed that the characteristics of teachers, such as gender and marital status, did not have an effect on teachers’ well-being levels, or they were at a very weak level. The effect of research characteristics on research findings revealed that the type of grade, publication type, school type, teacher branch, the region where the research was conducted, and the gender of the researcher did not have a moderator effect.