Investigating school attachment of secondary school students

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether school attachment levels of secondary school students change according to school burnout, sex, class level, family income level, academic achievement, physical condition of school, teacher satisfaction and number of schoolfriend variables or not. The sample of the research is composed of 562 (274 girls,288 boys) 6th, 7th and 8th grade students who are being educated in four different secondary school in Malatya in 2015-2016 academic year. t-Test for dual variables and ANOVA statistics technique for multiple variables were used. According to the result of the research; it was found that there is no significant difference between school attachment and sex and family income level variables but there is a significant difference between school attachment and class level,academic achievement, physical condition of school,teacher satisfaction and number of schoolfriend variables. Stepwise Regression Analysis was used to determine how school burnout predict school attachment. It was concluded that burnout which is arisen from losting interest to school and school activities predict school attachment significantly.