SURVEY:
PRINCIPAL MISTREATMENT OF TEACHERS

2. For each of these items, please rate your level of harm resulting from your principal’s mistreatment by checking the appropriate box.

Harm to me:	Mild Moderate Serious Extensive
Harm to my work:	Mild Moderate Serious Extensive
Harm to my home/family:	Mild Moderate Serious Extensive
Combined harm to me/work/home:	Mild Moderate Serious Extensive

3. Approximately what percentage of your total life harm or injury (psychological, emotional, physical, work, personal life) do you feel has resulted from your principal’s mistreatment?

80-100% 60-79% 40-59% 20-39% 0-19%

4. Do you feel that you experience more harm than most other teachers in your school as a result of your principal’s mistreatment?

Yes No

5. Is being at school so harmful at times that you feel you cannot cope with it?

Yes No

6. Would you leave your job for another because of the harm caused by your principal’s mistreatment?

Yes No

7. How many teachers were typically mistreated by your principal?

Many Me and a few others Only me Others but not me

8. Please check any of the following behaviors you have used in attempts to cope with or handle your principal’s mistreatment.

1.     look for good in the principal

2.     rationalize the principal’s behavior

3.     think positively or accept as part of my job

4.     endure the principal’s mistreatment

5.     appease the principal

6.     avoid the principal

7.     ignore the principal

8.     deny that something bad is happening to me

9.     detach

10.   talk with others for support and ideas

11.   have colleagues speak to the principal

12.   report to a union official or association representative

13.   physical activity or sports

14.   meditation, relaxation, religion

15.   hobby

16.   reading, music, TV

17.   time management, reorganizing

18.   switch to something rewarding, positive

19.   do something special for myself

20.   leave area, walk, hide

21.   sex

22.   alcohol

23.   drugs

24.   therapy or counseling

25.   medical treatment

26.   confront the principal

27.   assert myself with the principal

28.   defy the principal’s orders

29.   threaten the principal (e.g., with complaint, exposure)

30.   speak to higher-ups

31.   file a complaint with the school district

32.   file a complaint with the union

33.   be absent from work

34.   transfer

35.   quit my job

36.   consult an attorney

37.   file a legal complaint