Students' attitudes toward social security morality: The case of Düzce province

Throughout history, individuals and states have tried to implement social security practices for social protection in various ways. Financing is the most important factor needed for the effective functioning of both traditional and contemporary social security systems. The factors that lead to the emergence of financing problems in the social security system are as follows: failure to achieve an active-passive balance, increase in unregistered employment, early retirement practices, inadequate audits, and failure to properly utilize the collected premiums. The subtext of these problems is that individuals and society do not have sufficient social security ethics. Social security ethics is defined as the willingness of those enrolled in the social security system to pay the legally stipulated premium amounts. In this study, the concept of morality, moral philosophy, the history of the Turkish social security system and financing problems are mentioned. In the study, a research was conducted with the problem of whether the gender, education level, presence of work experience and working styles of the faculty, college and vocational school students studying at Düzce University affect their attitudes towards social security ethics. In order to find an answer to the problem question of the research, simple random sampling method was used in the study. Accordingly, the social security scale questionnaire was applied to 500 students in the selected sample. The questionnaire was prepared using a 5-point Likert-type scale, and the data were analyzed using the SPSS program. AMOS program was also used for confirmatory factor analysis. In the survey, three different dimensions were reached as the dimension of violation of the law, the dimension of seeing insurance as unnecessary and the awareness of insurance. According to the results of this survey study, it has been revealed that the gender, education level, work experience and working style of the faculty, college and vocational school students studying at Düzce University affect their attitudes towards social security ethics. It was concluded that there was a significant difference between the gender of the students and their attitudes towards social security ethics. There is a significant difference between the type of study and the attitude towards social security ethics. There is a significant difference between undergraduate and associate degree students in their attitudes towards social security ethics, there is a significant difference between the attitudes of students with and without work experience towards social security ethics, and there is a significant difference between the sector of employment and the attitude towards social security ethics.