UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ LONELINESS AND PERCEIVED SOCIAL SUPPORT LEVELS ACCORDING TO GENDER AND PERCEIVED PARENTS ATTITUDES

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to investigate gender differences and perceived parents attitudes with respect to loneliness and perceived social support. The universe of this study was Çukurova University students. The sample consisted of 521 university students from different faculties (Education, Engineering, Economy, Humanities and Art) at University of Cukurova in 2005–2006 academic year. In this study to examine if there were any significant differences between gender- perceived parents attitudes and loneliness- perceived social support, multivariate statistic technic (MANOVA) was used. Findings indicated that there was no significant differences on loneliness and social support according to gender but there was significant differences according to perceived parents attitudes. Gender main effect indicated that both female and male students experience loneliness and perceived social supportat more or less at the same level. Perceived parents attitudes main effect revealed that democratic parents’ children felt less lonely and they perceived more social support from friends and their family. As a conclusion according to gender there was no significant effect on loneliness and perceived social support but according to perceiving parents attitudes there were significant effect on loneliness and perceived social support.

Keywords

• Loneliness, social support, perceived parents attitudes, gender

ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN CİNSİYETLERİNE VE ANABABA TUTUM ALGILARINA GÖRE YALNIZLIK VE SOSYAL DESTEK DÜZEYLERİNİN İNCELENMESİ

Abstract

Bu araştırmanın amacı üniversite öğrencilerinin cinsiyetlerine ve ana baba tutum algılarına göre yalnızlık ve algılanan sosyal destek düzeylerinin incelenmesidir. Araştırmanın evrenini Çukurova Üniversitesi, örneklemini ise Çukurova Üniversitesinde 2005-2006 yılında farklı fakültelerde (Eğitim, Mühendislik, İdari Bilimler, Fen Edebiyat) öğrenim gören toplam 521 öğrenci oluşturmuştur. Araştırmada cinsiyet ve algılanmış ebeveyn tutumlarının yalnızlık ve sosyal destek üzerindeki etkisi çok boyutlu varyans analizi (MANOVA) ile test edilmiştir. Uygulanan MANOVA sonuçları cinsiyet ana etkisine göre yalnızlık ve sosyal destek düzeylerinin farklılaşmadığını, kız ve erkek öğrencilerin birbirine benzer düzeyde yalnızlık ve sosyal destek algılarının olduğunu göstermektedir. Ana-baba tutumları ana etkisine göre ise yalnızlık ve sosyal destek düzeylerinin anlamlı bir biçimde farklılaştığını göstermektedir. Ebeveynlerini demokratik algılayan ebeveynlerin çocuklarının kendilerini daha az yalnız hissettikleri ve daha fazla arkadaşlarından ve aielelerinden sosyal destek aldıklarını algıladıkları görülmektedir. Sonuç olarak; araştırma sonuçları cinsiyet ana etkisine göre yalnızlık ve sosyal destek düzeylerinin farklılaşmadığını, algılanmış ebeveyn tutumlarına göre ise yalnızlık ve algılanmış sosyal destek düzeylerinin farklılaştığını göstermektedir.

Keywords

• Yalnızlık, sosyal destek, algılanmış ebeveyn tutumları, cinsiyet

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