A Comparative Study of Government and Private High Schools Students on Their Hopelessness Levels

Abstract

The aim of this study is to compare the hopelessness levels of high school students in private and public schools. In this context, a total of 357 high school students, 149 girls and 208 boys, voluntarily participated in the research. The Beck Hopelessness scale developed by Beck and Steer in 1987 was used to determine the students' hopelessness levels. The obtained data were analyzed in the SPSS 18.0 program and the significance level was taken as 0.05. The t test and the One Way ANOVA were used for group comparison of the data. According to the results of the research, no significant difference was observed in the comparison of the hopelessness levels of private and public high school students. In addition, there was no significant difference in the hopelessness levels of male and female students. There was no significant difference between the sport branches and hopelessness levels of the students.

Keywords: University students, hopelessness level, psychology, sport branch