Condition of Public Primary Schools in Terms of Emotional Social Support and Parents’ Learning Needs Parallel to This Subject

Abstract

This research aims to determine the public primary schools’ conditions in terms of emotional social support and parents’ learning needs regarding this subject in the Manavgat County of Antalya City. The universe of this model which was conducted through scanning model was consisted of parents who have children attending to the public primary schools in the Manavgat County. The data was collected from the sampling set that was consisted of 384 parents. In interpretation of the collected data, frequency, percentage and chi-square methods were utilized. It was determined that almost all of the parents were in positive attitude regarding emotional support for their children. However, it was also understood that there were some parents who cannot provide sufficient support which cannot be ignored in number and they were in need in terms of emotional social support.

Keywords: Emotional Support , Parental involvement, Student Achievement , Adult Education