The Effect of Teachers Gender on Emotional and Social Justment of Elementary School Male Students

This study, investigated the effect of teachers' gender on social and emotional adjustment of sixth grade male students of elementary schools in Bandar-e Mahshahr .Method of this study was causal-comparative. The research community was Sixth grade male students from first grade to sixth grade of elementary schools in Bandar Mahshahr that had female teachers. This study used available sampling and simple random sampling method . The sample consisted of 40sixth-gradeelementary school students that have female teachers, parents (mother or father) and students teachers are the control group. And comparison group consisted of 40studentsin sixth grade elementary school with male teachers, parents (mother or father) and students’ teachers. Measuring devices in this study are three existing questionnaire based on compatibility questionnaires and instructions of book, the measure variables in the Psychology and Educational Sciences(Saif, 2012) has been made and fits any standard. To assess the validity of tools based on performed calculations, the Cronbach's alphawas82% , 94% , 92% for the students questionnaire and teachers' questionnaire and parents (parent) questionnaires, respectively . And to enhance the internal validity of the study from matching and assembling Subjects in group with the control group , tried that confounding variables as much as possible be controlled or neutral. To analyze assumptions, used of t- test for independent samples and chi-square test. Overall , the results show that emotional and social adjustment of students with female teachers hasn’t significant difference with students with male teachers. All teachers participating in the study believe that teachers gender must comply with the gender of the student , 75% of teachers believe that students affect teachers' gender, parental satisfaction off male teachers and male teachers is 100% and92.5% ,respectively .because parents believe that teachers have less control over students, 87.5% of parents in the control group agreed that the teacher's gender has an impact on the adjustment of students, 90% of parents in the comparison group were in favor of teacher's gender on adjustment affect students, But while the adaptation of two groups of students showed no significant difference in the results of the data. Also, 90 % of male students that have female teachers tend to have male teacher, because the students stressed that they are men which maybe  one of the reasons that male students  tend to have male teachers is that boys from third to sixth class, strengthen their identification with masculine personality traits. 100% Students who had male teachers completely satisfied of their teachers' gender.