Investigating Earthquake Anxiety Levels of Child Development Department University Student

Year 2023, Volume: 8 Issue: 4, 991 - 1001, 27.10.2023

Seda Eskidemir Meral

https://doi.org/10.24331/ijere.1331117

Cited By: 1

Abstract

After the February 6 earthquakes in 2023 in the South-east of Turkey, this study,
which was conducted to examine the earthquake anxiety levels of students of
child development according to various variables, is a survey model. The study
population consists of university students of the child development department.
The study sample consists of 212 students who volunteered to participate in the
study at Akdeniz University and Osmaniye Korkut Ata University in the
program of child development. The data were collected online through the
Personal Information Form and Earthquake Anxiety Scale (Bal & Akgül, 2023).
As a result of the study, it was determined that the earthquake anxiety levels of
students in child development differed significantly according to gender, age,
being in one of the provinces affected by the earthquake, losing a relative in the
earthquake, and the destruction of their houses. During the February 6
earthquakes, it was found that the earthquake anxiety levels of child
development students who were in one of the provinces affected by the
earthquake, whose houses were destroyed and who lost their relatives in the
earthquake, who were girl and 19 years of age or older was higher, than the
others. It was determined that the earthquake anxiety levels of students of child
development did not differ significantly depending on the grade level and the
type of graduated high school.

Keywords

Earthquake Anxiety, February 6 earthquake, child development

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