Lise Öğrencilerinin Şiddete Yönelik Tutumlarının Çeşitli Değişkenler Açısından İncelenmesi: Eskişehir Örneği

Violence is one of the main problems that the public encounter today. In order this problem to be solved, the social and personal features of the individuals must be examined and the reasons of their tendency to violence must be detected. The adolescence is a developmental period in which acts of violence are encountered more often. The aim of the present study was to investigate adolescents’ attitudes toward violence in terms of their gender, age, type of school and parents’ educational level. The sample group of the study consisted of 313 high school students (140 females and 173 males), studying in five different types of state high schools in the center of Eskisehir city in 2019- 2020 academic year. The descriptive survey model was used in the study. As data collection tools, “Personal Information Form” and “The Attitudes toward Violence Scale” were used. In the analysis of the data, “t-test” and “one-way analysis of variance” were used. As a result of the study, that there is a significant level of difference between the high school students’ attitude toward violence and gender and type of school, whereas, there is not a significant level of difference in terms of age and parents’ educational level has been found out. In the conlusion, the 41.9 % of the sample group agreed with the expression “I commit violence when it is needed.” It has been found out that violence is often seen as a physical thing by the students in the schools. In accordance with the findings, it is suggested to increase awareness-raising activities for parents about the issue, to organize trainings to help adolescents to make use of effective problem-solving methods without using violence, to include more facilities in the curriculum to make social values like compassion, respect, trust, helpfulness be acquired; and also it is suggested to extend facilities of violence prevention and monitoring in the schools.