Abstract:

The aim of this study is to develop a measurement tool to determine the financial literary attitudes and behaviors of primary school students. The sample of the study consists of 457 primary school students studying in the province of Istanbul. Attitude expressions created on the basis of the theoretical substructure of the scale were sent to the field experts for scale validity. According to expert opinions, the scale material has been end-formed by the structural validity factor analysis (AFA), the verifying factor analysis (DFA) to verify this structure. According to the AFA results, a structure of 21 matters 5 factors was created. The DFA results confirm the structure of 5 factors. The analysis of the substance of the measurement found that the t-test values of the group average of 27% below and 27% above were meaningful. The Cronbach Alfa internal consistency ratio of the scale is calculated as 0.83 for the entire scale, and the two semi-test correlation of Spearman Brown is calculated as 0.79. According to the results obtained, the Marmara Financial Reading Attitude and Behavior Scale can be said to be valid and reliable.

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