Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, cilt.51, sa.2, ss.340-347, 2012 (Hakemli Dergi)
Hopelessness can be defined as negative expectations for the future. In other words, it is the level of pessimism for future
(Yenilmez, 2010: 307). One of the most important reasons for the failure at school (Yenilmez, 2010:1), hopelessness causes
many mental health problems as well. In particular, it is among the main reasons of suicide, which has been shown as a public
health issue throughout the history. In our country, suicide’s being dense especially between the ages of 15-24 and 25-34 (Uçan,
2005: 19) led the different disciplines to perform some research on the subject. The fact that participation in artistic activities is
effective for socialization of the person, dismissing stress, expressing himself gave birth to the idea that studying the effect of
need of receiving art education informally on the level of hopelessness is important for future findings. This study was conducted
to determine the status of receiving informally art education needs of high school students, to determine whether there is a
significant relationship between the levels of hopelessness and needs of receiving art education informally, and to detect whether
their levels of hopelessness contain significant differences according to the needs of receiving art education informally. This
study, conducted through relational scanning method, was carried out with high school students in a medium-sized city in eastern
Turkey. The study population is composed of 6883 students attending general high school in the academic year 2011-2012. The
study group is composed of 115 girls and 65 boys a total of 182 students attending general high school in the academic year
2011-2012. In order to measure the students’ need of receiving art education informally, “Need of Receiving Art Education
Informally Scale”, developed by the researcher Taskesen, was used and in order to measure the levels of hopelessness, "Beck
Hopelessness Scale" developed by Beck, Lester, Trexter (1974) and adapted to Turkey by Seber (1991), Durak (1993). For
The data analysis, to compare the scores of the dependent variable of the sample, one-way ANOVA was used, which is one of the
parametric tests. Personn correlation coefficient was used to determine the relationships between two variables. At the end of the
ANOVA test, there was no significant difference in highs school students’ level of
hopelessnessandalsodespitethenegativecorrelationbetweenthescores of receiving art education informally and level of
hopelessness, there was significant association.