Investigation of leadership and autonomous-dependent personality traits of secondary school students

The main purpose of the study includes examining the leadership and autonomous-dependent personality traits of the students who are studying at Nezihe Hasan Kılıç Anatolian High School in Büyükçekmece District. While the universe of this research consists of secondary school students studying in Istanbul/Büyükçekmece District, the sampling of this study consists of randomly selected students studying at Nezihe Hasan Kılıç Anatolian High School in the 2020-2021 academic year. Within the scope of this research, face-to-face and online survey technique was applied to obtain the data, both on a voluntary basis. The study was conducted using the correlational survey and causal-comparative, both of which are research models. The tools used to collect data in the study are as follows: "Personal Information Form", "Leadership Scale" and "Sociotropy-Autonomy Scale". The analyzes of the collected data were obtained using IBM SPSS 25.0 package program. Socio-demographic information, scale averages and factor scores of the participants were evaluated by determining the frequency (f) and percentage (%) values. In addition, the normal distribution states of the scores, normal distribution curves, skewness-kurtosis values, and normal distribution levels through histograms were also examined. In order to determine the reliability levels of the scales and their sub-dimensions, reliability analysis was performed and the "Chronbach Alpha Coefficient" was obtained. The determined hypotheses were tested by performing Independent Sample T test, One-way ANOVA test and Pearson Correlation analyzes. As a result of the analysis conducted within the scope of the research, it was determined that there is a very weak positive relationship between the leadership characteristics of the participants and the autonomy dimension of the problem solving and responsibility dimensions. As determined in the results, there is no positive relationship between all sub-dimensions of leadership characteristics and sociotropy and autonomy dimensions. It was concluded that the relationship between the sub-dimensions of the leadership characteristics of the participants, such as self-confidence, being able to work with the group, being reliable, the ability to persuade, problem solving, and responsibility dimensions, was high and positive. After the study conducted, the following conclusions have been reached: There is a statistically significant difference in the sub-dimension of being reliable according to the gender of the participants, in the sub-dimensions of self-confidence, working with the group and being reliable according to the class level, and in the sub-dimensions of self-confidence and ability to persuade by income level. Besides, there is a statistically significant difference in the self-confidence and persuasion sub-dimensions according to the licensed sports status of the participants, the self-confidence due to the involvement of any family member in sports, the ability to work with the group, the ability to be reliable and persuasion sub-dimensions, and the sociotropy (autonomous) sub-dimension according to the education level of the mother.