GENÇLİKTE TOPLUMSAL KATILIM VE ANABABANIN ROLÜ

Toplumsal katılım gençlerin yaşamında insanlarla ve toplumla olan etkileşimi sağlaması ve kolaylaştırması açısından önemli bir role sahiptir. Bu karışık desenli kesitsel çalışma, gençlerin katılımlarını yaş ve cinsiyete göre incelemek ve anne ve babanın bu katılım üzerindeki etkisini belirlemek üzere yapılmıştır. Bu amaçla 16-26 yaş aralığındaki 278 gence anket uygulanmıştır. Anket çalışmasından sonra, farklı cinsiyetleri ve yaş aralıklarını temsilen seçilen gençlerin anne ve babalarıyla 6 anne ve 6 baba olmak üzere toplamda 12 görüşme yapılmıştır. Analizler, gençlerin katılımında yaşın, cinsiyete oranla daha önemli bir etmen olabileceğini göstermektedir. Katılıma ilişkin anne ve babayla olan paylaşıma bakıldığında cinsiyet ve yaş farkı olmaksızın gençlerin katılım konularında babayı anneden daha bilgili ve yetkili gördükleri ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu bulgularla tematik analiz sonrasında anne ve babalarla olan görüşmelerden elde edilen bulgular birleştirildiğinde, anne ve babalarla olan paylaşımın gençlerin yaşam sorunlarının farklılaşması dolayısıyla yaşla beraber değiştiği görülmüştür. Annenin katılım konusuna yaklaşımı gencin yaşadığı sorunların çözümüyle ilişkili olarak değişirken, babanın gençlerin katılımından beklentisi daha çok kendi ailesine ve ülkesine yararlı olmaları yönündedir. Bu durumun sosyo-kültürel ve tarihsel etmenlerden kaynaklandığı düşünülmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Katılım, Ergenlik, Ana baba, Toplumsal bağlam

YOUTH PARTICIPATION AND PARENTS’ ROLE

Social participation plays an important role in young people’s lives as it ensures and facilitates their interaction with people and society. Participation shows how much a society is developed. It also has a great positive impact on an individual’s life (Sherrod, 2007). This mixed designed cross-sectional study aims to understand the effect of mother and father roles on social participation, as parents seem to be the main source of influence on the daily life of young people. For this purpose a questionnaire was used to measure different factors that could affect young people's social participation. 278 people, aged between 16 and 26 (cross section age profiles are determined as 16-19; 20-22; 23-26 year-olds), participated in the study. Later on, 12 individual interviews were performed with 6 mothers and 6 fathers, representing genders and age range. Independent samples t-test, one way ANOVA and descriptive statistics were used in SPSS 17. packet program to analyze the data. As result, age variance has been found statistically significant in most of the sub dimensions that relate to social participation while gender has been found less important. Moreover, it was revealed that irrespective of age and gender of the young people, fathers were seen as more sophisticated and competent compared to mothers with regard to sharing about participation. These findings have integrated with the findings that were obtained from the thematic analyses of interviews with mothers and fathers. However, it has been observed that sharing with parents about participation changes as young people’s problems change with age. While a mother approaches her child’s participation to seek a solution for his/her problems, a father expects to see benefits by his child’s participation in terms of family and country. This result is thought to be caused by cultural structure, and thus is found to be quite different from Western literature that refers parents’ equal roles in respect to source of influence.

Keywords:

Participation, Adolescence, Parental Influence,

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