Exposure to Emotional Violence: Relationship between University Students according to their Demographic Characteristics
Menekşe Eskici 1 * , Nilüfer Saatçioğlu Tinkir 1
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1 Kirklareli University, Kirklareli, TURKEY* Corresponding Author

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the level of exposure to emotional violence of university students. In addition, it was also tried to identify the relationship between the emotional violence exposure level and the variables of university students’ age, gender, whether they get psychological support before and after the university or not, and the school they attend. This research is a survey model research using quantitative data. The participants of this study are 701 (415 females and 286 males) university students who are studying in various departments in the academic year 2017-2018. The data of the study were collected with the “Emotional Violence Scale” developed within the scope of the research. SPSS 17 was used to analyze the quantitative data obtained. In order to analyze the data, Arithmetic Mean, Standard Deviation, t-Test, and One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used. According to the results of the analysis, it was found that the level of exposure to emotional violence of university students was low. In addition, it was concluded that male students’ exposure to emotional violence was significantly higher than that of female students. It is also concluded that the students who have been exposed to emotional violence have significant differences according to the variables; age, gender, whether they get psychological support before and after the university or not.

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Article Type: Research Article

PEDAGOGICAL RES, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2019, Article No: em0026

https://doi.org/10.29333/pr/5731

Publication date: 12 Mar 2019

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