Abstract:

The study was conducted with the aim to investigate the relationship between exposure to bullying, committing bullying and recreational time perceptions of adolescents who study at different types of schools. The "Personal Information Form" prepared by the researcher and "Leisure Boredom Scale" developed by Iso-Ahola and Weissinger (1990) and adapted to Turkish by Soylu and Siyez and "Peer Bullying Scale- Adolescent Form" developed by Ayas and Pişkin were used as a data collection tool. Population of the study consist of 1062 students studying in different high school types in Batman province. In the analysis, it is seen that student ratio in the not interfered group is higher than student groups in all other groups. In terms of the largeness of the ratios, not interfered group is respectively followed by victim, bully-victim and bully groups. Ratio of students which interfere to bullying in any group (bully, victim, bully-victim) is (19.9%), and the ratio of students in `not interfered` group is (80.1%). While ¼ of the sample joins bully acts, 3/4 does not. As a result, it is seen that students in the bully group have the highest average in scores taken in the sub-dimensions of free-time boredom scale and all of the scales.

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