Investigation the levels of sense of identity acquisition of high school students through some personal-social and parental characteristics along with the level of crime behavior

In this study, it was investigatedwhether the levels of the sense of identityacquisition of high schools students differ through some personal, social andparental characteristics, and the relationship between crime behavior and thesense of identity acquisitm was examine. For this purpose; gender, age, schooltype, grade point average, birth order, the number of siblings, hometown, family,the state of happiness with friends and the schools atmosphere, attendance tofree time activities, satisfaction with the physical appearance were taken aspersonal and social characteristics; the education level of the mother, theeducation level of the father, the state of the parents (divorced or together),perceived socio-economic level, perceived mother attitude, perceived fatherattitude, and the state of approval of friends by the parents were taken as familycharacteristics in this study.27900 students who were studying in 34 high schools located in Eskişehir in2004-2005 Education Year constituted population of the research. 11 highschools chosen to cover all high school types were taken for the study, and1454 randomly selected students from all levels to form the sample were takenas the subjects of this study. The data related to the students? level of the senseof identity acquisition were collected by using ?The Sense of Identity Scale?(adopted by Köker, 1997), and the data related to the student behaviors whichare accepted as crime were collected by using ?Crime Behaviors Scale? (Kaner,1996). For the data related to personal, social and family characteristics of highschool students, ?Personal Information Form? prepared by the researcher wasused.The analysis of the data were carried out by using ?SPSS 10.0.0 for Windows?.In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics were used along withindependent t-test and One-Way ANOVA. When F-test was found significant,Tukey HSD test was applied. Furthermore, since the aim of this study was toinvestigate the relationship between the students? sense of identity and theircrime behaviors, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient techniquewas also used. The significance level for all statistical analysis was taken as.05.According to the results of the study, the sense of identity acquisition levels ofthe high school students was found medium level. The sense of identityacquisition levels of high school students differ according to the school type,grade point average, birth order, the number of the siblings, hometown, family,the state of happiness with friends and the schools atmosphere, attendance tofree time activities, and satisfaction with the physical appearance. Moreover, thesense of identity acquisition levels of high school students showed differenceaccording to the education level of the mother, the education level of the father,and the state of approval of friends by the parents. On the other hand, thesense of identity acquisition levels of high school students did not differaccording to gender, age and the state of the parents (divorced or together).Moreover, a negative relationship was found between the sense of identityacquisition levels and crime behavior of high school students.