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European Journal of Education Studies ISSN: 2501 - 1111 ISSN-L: 2501 - 1111 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu Volume 3 │ Issue 8 │ 2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.838667 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ VIOLENCE TENDENCIES Mehmet Altıni, Hayri Demir, Havva Demirel, Yahya Gökhan Yalçın, Selçuk Buğdaycı Selçuk University, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Konya, Turkey Abstract: This paper aimed to compare the levels of violence tendency in three different types of high schools. The universe of the research consisted of the high school students in the province Konya, the sample group involved 280 male, 224 female students studying at the Vocational, Anatolian and Sport High Schools. In obtaining data, a personal information form and the Violence Tendency Scale (VTS) developed by Göka et al. (1995) were used. The scale was made up of a four-point Likert type with 20 questions, varying from absolutely inappropriate to point from the scale was 8 absolutely appropriate . The highest , the lowest point was . “ high point shows that the students’ aggressiveness and violence tendencies are more. In accordance with the students’ points from the scale, the point between between 21- as poor , the point between - - as very poor , the point as good and the point between - 8 as very good were regarded in terms of violence tendency, the Cronbach “lpha reliability coefficient of the scale was found to be .88. By testing the homogenity and variance of data, in the determination of statistical differences Independent t-test, One Way Anowa, Tukey-HSD tests were utilised. In this paper, the male students’ violence tendency averages were higher rather than the female students and this difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). The values regarding the students doing sportive activities were lower than the students not doing sport and this difference was statistically significant P< . . Depending on the factors of father and mother’s education level, income level and class, any statistical differences were not observed. The Sport High School students’ violence tendency averages were lower than two other school types, the difference between the sport high school and the vocational high Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 424 Mehmet “ltın, Hayri Demir, Havva Demirel, Yahya Gökhan Yalçın, Selçuk ”uğdaycı HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ VIOLENCE TENDENCIES school was statistically significant (P<0.05). In conclusion, the students who give importance to sportive activities in their lives and have sportive education, are considered to have lower violence tendency rather than the students at other schools. Keywords: violence, anger, aggressiveness, high school student 1. Introduction Literature is highly rich in violence and violence related concepts. In general terms, it represents to have excessive feelings and behaviours, use brute force against persons having different opinions from oneself (TDK access, 2017; Budak, 2003; Çabuk Kaya, 2006). Ayan (2007) describes violence as expressing, reflecting aggressiveness tendency which is accepted to be naturally present in persons, individuals or social dimensions by damaging to other persons. The violence case has carried various meanings in its own approaches, its own scientific fields, under the social and historical conditions (Tor and Sargın, . The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that violence which is regarded to be injured against a person, a group or a society, resort to physical power or threat resulting from death, psychological damage and depression, is experienced in lots of emotional, physical, verbal, sexual and political dimensions (WHO, 2002). Violence is a social case changing in society and in time whatever its basic characteristics are. Like a violent event can have various meanings in different societies, it can be perceived in different ways in the same society in different times. Societies change, furthermore, social norms change as well (TBMM Research Report, 2013). Whatever the resource and reason of violence is; it carries damaging features against an individual committing violence, its directed object, a living and a social structure. It can be physical, furthermore, any word, any approach, any attitude, any manner which bring psychological aggressiveness and violence to mind, are the determinants of violence level. Memiş et al. divides violence into three classes of physical, verbal-psychological and sexual ones. In WHO’s report , violence was defined in three groups including self–directed, interpersonal and collective violence in terms of violence-oriented persons. For downloading the full article, please access the following link: http://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejes/article/view/933 European Journal of Education Studies - Volume 3 │ Issue 8 │ 2017 425