Religion perception of the high school students in Büyükçekmece-İstanbul

The research was made in order to learn religion perception of the high school students in Büyükçekmece which is a district in İstanbul and determine the psycho-social factors which are effective on them.The research's universe forms 12689 high school students who are educated in Büyükçekmece in 2006-2007 school year. Also, the research's sample forms 313 students who are educated in Anatolia High School, Private High School, Professions High School and Classic High School in Büyükçekmece. Ages of the students who are formed the sample vary 14-19.In the research, it was examined 20 psycho-social factors that were thought effective on the religion perception of the students. These psycho-social factors are sexuality, age, kind of school, class, settlement place, education and belief situations of mother-father, communication with mother-father, economic situation of family, family structure, marriage situation of mother-father, situation of taking religion education except the school, situation of living a regrettable event in the past, situation of lasting sickness and defective, religious practises, frequency of reading and watching religious publications.It was used "Personal Info Poll" and "Religion Perception Inventory" which are developed by the researcher in order to determine religious perception of young people who form dependent variable of the research.Statistical analysis of the data that was found in the research was made with SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) package program Chi-Square Test was used while testing the hypothesises.Finally, it was proved that kind of school, education and communication situations of mother-father, economic situation of family, family structure, situation of taking religion education except the school, religious practises and reading and watching religious publications are effective in the religious sense and ideas world of the the young people.Key Words1.Religion, 2.Student, 3.High School, 4.Family, 5.Education