Examining personal and social responsibility levels of secondary school students

Abstract

This study is a descriptive research study, which was conducted to determine personal and social responsibility levels of secondary school students. The research group is comprised of 602 (285 females, 317 males) students who are studying at the state schools under the Directorate of National Education in Konya Province. In obtaining the research data, Personal and Social Responsibility Scale (PSRS) was used, which was adopted to Turkish society by Filiz and Demirhan [1]. In the analysis of the research data, SPSS 22.0 program, independent t test and One Way ANOVA test were used. As the conclusion of the research, it was determined that, in general, the personal and social responsibility levels of the students were high, from "gender" variable point of view, female students had higher responsibility levels. From the "grade" variable point of view, the 5th and 6th grade students had higher responsibility levels compared to the h and 8th grades, the ones with sport training experience had higher levels, and the students, whose physical education teachers were female, had higher levels of personal and social responsibility.