Özet:

The aim of this research is to study the relationship between the levels of curiosity and the levels of conscious awareness according to the variables of high school students’ gender, class, school type and academic success. The research is designed as a relative scanning in the scanning model. In this study, 367 high school students participated in the use of layer sampling method from unselective sampling types. The research was developed by Kashdan, Gallagher, Silvia, Winterstein, Breen, Terhar, and Steger (2009) and developed by Brown and Ryan (2003) with the "Curiosity Scale" adapted to Turkish by Acun, Kapıkıran and Kabasakal (2013); the "Consciousness Scale" adapted to Turkish by Özgreşil, Arslan, Kesici and Deniz (2011). The demographic characteristics are collected by the "Personal Information Form". The research finds that high school students have a weak relationship in a positive direction between the levels of curiosity and the levels of conscious awareness. A weak relationship in the negative direction has been detected in women. In male students, the scale of curiosity has been shown to have a positive, weak relationship in the degree of acceptance. The study found a meaningful class-based relationship only in the 11th class and in terms of school type, while in the positive direction, a close to middle-level relationship was found. The conclusion is that there is a significant difference in interest of the students of the Social Sciences High School between the curious tendency and the levels of conscious awareness. This situation shows that students’ interest levels and conscious awareness levels differ in a positive direction from other types of schools. As a result, it can be said that students’ interest levels affect their conscious level of consciousness.

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