Examination of perception of personal development traning and personal development of university students

Personal development is expressed as starting a process of change in order to be suf-ficient in insufficient areas for an individual. Personal development training plays an important role in this process of change. These trainings has purposes such as adapt-ing to the changing world, developing positive attitudes, gaining the skills for people for thinking, behavior and managing the conflicts. In this context, personal develop-ment trainings that are taken during the period of being student is seen an important factor for developing these skills. The aim of this study is to determine perceptions of university students about the personal development and personal development trainings. The study was carried out by conducting questionnaire on 572 Sakarya University students studying at Business, Technology and Education faculties. Data were analyzed by using fre-quency analysis, independent sample T-Test and one-way ANOVA. As a general result of the research, it was found that there is a positive relationship between the students' personal development perception and personal development trainings, personal development perception have significant differences according to gender and faculty. As a general result of the research, it was found that personal development trainings have significant differences according to gender and faculty. At the same time it was concluded that students believe the benefits of personal developments trainings and they think that these trainings will be effective in the job.