The position of youth centers wich are bround to the Presidency of Religious Affairs in common religion education: The example of İstanbul

This research aims to examine the expectations and satisfaction levels of the participants who participate in the activities of the Religious Youth Centers in Istanbul province affiliated to the Presidency of Religious Affairs. It is aimed to objectively determine the expectations and satisfaction of the participants towards the religious and supporting activities and trainings of the relevant center with the descriptive and comparative survey and phenomenological research methods used in the research. The choice of the research topic was determined by the fact that there is no research on this topic in the non-formal religious education literature. The sample of the research consists of 155 people participating in various activities in twelve different Religious Youth Centers. A survey and an observation form were used as data collection tools in the research. The questionnaire which is developed by the researcher consists of questions covering the gender, age, educational status of the participants and determining the satisfaction and expectations of the participants from the activities of Religious Youth Centers. SPSS 22.0 statistical package program was used to analyze the data. Frequency and percentage distributions of the items related to the demographic information of the participants and their satisfaction with the Diyanet Youth Centers were extracted and the sub-dimensions were evaluated within themselves. Participants' satisfaction levels with the services they received from the relevant centers were analyzed according to gender, age and centers. Mann-Withney U, one of the non-parametric tests, was used for difference analysis in variables with two subgroups related to items that did not meet the parametric test conditions for difference analysis; Independent Samples t Test was used in other items. In subgrouped variables with three or more variables, One Way Anova was used for the items that met the parametric conditions; Kruskal Wallis test was used for the items that did not meet these conditions. Tukey HSD test was used in the Anova test to determine the source of the difference. It is thought that these findings can be taken into consideration by Diyanet Youth Center managers and organizers to make the activities more effective and participant-oriented.