Examination Of The Effects On The Future Anxiety Of Secondary Students In Terms Of Various Variables

Abstract

This study aims at analyzing the future anxiety levels of the students from 9th to 12th grades in terms of various variables and determining the differences according to their grades, sex, types of school, family’s average income, and family’s educational background. The study was conducted during the 2021-2022 academic year in different high schools in Çarşamba, Samsun. The participants were 108 students in total (77 female and 31 male) from Science High School, Anatolian High School, and Vocational High School. As the data collection tool, the “Career Anxiety Scale”, a 5-point Likert scale, was used. The scale consisted of 14 items and consists of two sub-dimensions: anxieties regarding the family effect and anxieties about the choice of profession.

The sub-dimension about the anxieties regarding family effect has 5 items and includes anxieties such as the individuals’’ choice of school and profession in their career paths and the effect of the families. The data were analyzed with an independent sample t-test and one-way ANOVA. The results show that there is a meaningful difference in girls in terms of sex and the sub-dimension of Career Choice. It can be said that female students have more anxiety about their choice of profession in the future than male students. As a result of the study, there isn’t any other meaningful relation between the research questions and the scale with its sub-dimensions.