A Study On the Attitudes of Business Owners Towards Learning and Their Economic Literacy: Case of Mersin

Abstract

In the days of many kinds of literacies required, it might be observed that economic literacy of individuals play a critical role mostly for people who run a business under the economical conditions of contemporary world. Hence, the learning and attitude towards learning activities have become key instruments for such circumstances. The business owners in Mersin was the population of this study with the aim of determining effections between attitudes towards learning and economic literacy and changes related to some demographical variables . With the sample of 330 participants, the data of this research was obtained via a questionnaire consisting of demographic questions and scales of attitude towards learning and economic literacy. The findings have shown that economic literacy of the business owners is influenced by the attiudes towards learning. It was also determined that the age, the level of education and the duration of experience at work may have an effect on economic literacy and attitudes towards learning. As a result of findings, it can be inferred that positive learning attitude may increase level of economic literacy and both scores of attitude towards learning and level of economic literacy may increase as the age, the education level and the duration of work experience increase.

Keywords

• Attitude towards learning,economic literacy,lifelong learning,business owners

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