Ortaokul Öğrencilerinin Yardımseverlik Değerinin İncelenmesi (Investigation of Benevolence Value of Secondary School Students)

Abstract

In this study, it was aimed to examine the benevolence value of secondary school students in terms of different variables. The survey design was used in the study. 1000 secondary school students continuing their education in Uşak in the 2021-2022 academic year participated in this study. These students were selected through simple random sampling. The data of the research were collected by the “Benevolence Scale” developed by İnel and Gökalp (2021) for secondary school students, the validity and reliability of which were calculated. The data were analyzed in the Jamovi 1.2 statistical package program. The research data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test for independent groups and one-way analysis of variance. Tukey's multiple comparison test was used to know which groups favored the significant differences between the groups. It was found that the benevolence values of the secondary school students participating in the study were high. It was found that the benevolence scores of the students did not differ significantly according to the parents' education, mother's work, father's occupation, number of people in the family, family income status and daily TV watching time. However, it was concluded that female students were more helpful to males, students living in nuclear families were more helpful than extended families, and those who used the internet for less than three hours a day were more helpful than those who used the internet for three hours or more. It is among the other results of the research that the benevolence scores of the students increase as the number of books they read in a year increases.