unemployment anxiety and working life perception of higher education youth: An application in the history of Avrasya University

Unemployment has become a very serious problem in many countries, especially in recent years with globalization and economic crises. In addition to unemployment, social, psychological and economic researches have come to the forefront. Psychologists have developed and applied different theories in order to examine and explain their unemployment and psychological effects. The major part of unemployment, which is a major problem for countries, is the unemployed. Several theories are available in my study to interpret youth unemployment. The aim of my study is to investigate the anxiety of the university youth and the psychological effects of this anxiety. Factors affecting unemployment anxiety are thought to be self_esteem and locus of control. Socio_demographic factors (such as age, gender, education, financial difficulty) are related to unemployment anxiety. For this purpose, a number of questionnaires were applied to 143 senior students studying at Avrasya University. The results were discussed within the scope of the research and suqqestions were made to reduce the unemployment anxiety. Key words: Unemployment, Youth Unemployment, Unemployment Anxiety.