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Full Length Research Paper
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Demographic variables and levels of life satisfaction:
The case of students enrolled in
apprenticeship training
Hasan Bozgeyikli1*,
Abdullah Işiklar1 and Susran Erkan Eroğlu2
1Faculty
of Education, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey.
2Faculty
of Education, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey.
*Corresponding
author. E-mail:
hbozgeyikil@erciyes.edu.tr.
Tel/Fax: +90 352 437 32 06, +90 352 437 88 34.
Accepted 13 May, 2010 |
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Abstract |
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The aim of this research is to observe
apprenticeship students’ life satisfaction levels related to
several environments (friend, school, environment, family and
self) according to some variables (parents’ educational
situation, parents’ profession, pleasure from job and
pleasure of working conditions. The
scope of the study was 548 apprenticeship students.
“Multidimensional life satisfaction questionnaire” was used as
data collecting medium. There is a significant difference
according to parents’ educational levels at students’ friend,
school, family, environment and self dimensions. There are
significant differences at all dimensions except self
dimension according to income level.
According to pleasure from job
variable there are significant differences at
the all dimensions of life
satisfaction of the students who were pleased from their
professions chosen compared to the students who were not pleased
from their professions. The results of this study were
discussed according to related literature and recommendations
were made for future researches.
Key words:
Life satisfaction, well-being, apprenticeship, apprenticeship
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