Secondary School Students' Perceptions of Human Values

Abstract

In this study, which aims to examine secondary school students' perceptions of human values in terms of various variables, the survey model was used. The universe of the study consists of secondary school students Istanbul in Turkey province in the 2022-2023 academic year. The sample of the research consists of 476 students. During the research process, data was collected using the "Human Values Scale" and "Personal Information Form". T-test to determine whether the human values of secondary school students differ significantly according to gender and school type variable; One-way analysis of variance was performed to determine whether it differed significantly according to the grade level variable. In addition, correlation analysis was used to observe the relationship of human values with age and daily internet use. As a result of the analyses worked on, according to gender; responsibility differs significantly according to the type of school and according to the class level of responsibility, friendship, peacefulness, honesty, and tolerance. Moreover, there is a negative correlation between the age levels of secondary school students and the level of friendship, peace, and respect while there was a positive and significant relationship with tolerance. Finally, it was determined that there was a negative significant relationship between daily internet use and the human values sub-dimension of responsibility, peacefulness, respect, honesty, tolerance and the total score of human values. The results obtained were discussed based on the literature and suggestions were made for future studies.