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Objective of this study is to analyze hopelessness behaviors of Vocational School final year students in terms of different variables. Whether hopelessness behaviors of Vocational School final year students differ with respect to Vocational School type, gender, age, scholarship, post-graduation professional expectation and existence of any relation between employment concerns and hopelessness behaviors are all observed in this study. Quantitative scanning model is used in the scope of this study, which is designed on the basis of qualitative approach. Working groups consists of 2nd class pupils of Turgut Ozal University Ankara Vocational School and Health Sciences Vocational School of same university (n=308). Personal data form and Beck Hopelessness scale is used as data collection means. In addition, the survey benefits from “Independent Groups t-Test”, “One-way Analysis of Variance, Kruskal-Wallis Variance Analysis, Mann-Whitney U test, “Pearson Correlation Coefficient Test”. Any meaningful difference is not found between hopelessness status of pupils and Vocational School type at the end of the research. Besides, it is identified that gender, employment concerns and post-graduation employment have impact on hopelessness behavior of pupils; whereas effect of age and scholarship status of pupils on hopelessness behavior of pupils is not meaningful.

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