Surveyed of psychological symptoms of high school students in terms of social supporting perception and academic procrasination

The purpose of this research is to examine high school students? psychological symptoms in terms of perceived social support and academic procrastination. Also in this research secondary students? psychological symptoms, perceived social support levels, academic procrastinations are investigated in terms of students? sexes, ages ,grade levels, school types, perceived academic achievements, number of their siblings, order of their arrival the world, their perceived socio-economic status, place of their residence and their parents' situations `if they are dead or alive, own or step, married or divorced?380 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students studying in four different types of secondary schools in the center of Duzce province which have been selected by using a random cluster sample has composed the sample of this study .For data collection, `Personal information form? developed by the researcher , `Brief symptom inventory (Şahin ve Durak, 1994)? to determine the psychological symptoms, `social support rating scale for children and adolescents? (Gökler, 2007) to measure the status of perceived social support and 'Aitken procrastination scale? (Aitken, 1982) to measure academic procrastination behavior have been used in this research.To the datas obtained in this research, in the groups that have two varries `the independent sample of t test? has been applied for the significance test of differences. In the groups that have more than two varries ?one-way anova (F test), ?Pearson correlation test? have been applied and in the case of the result of f value is significant Tukey test has been applied to determine the significant differences between the groups. Level of statistical significance was accepted as .05According to the findings of this research, high school students' levels of general psychological symptoms have negative linear relationship with the perception of social support, and positive linear relationship with the academic procrastination. Also this research shows that there are statistically significant differences between the levels of psychological symptoms, perceived social support,academic procrastination behaviour and demographic characteristics. Students? SSI, SSS ve APS scores was found to vary according to their sexes, ages, grade levels, school types, perceived academic achievements, lives and marital status of their parents, perceived socio-demographic characteristics such as socioeconomic status and place of their residences. According to the results, psychological symptoms have been discussed in terms of social support perception and academic procrastination and suggestions have been made for subsequent researches.