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This study focuses on variables that play a role in high school students' academic desire. For this purpose, the study identified the relationships between students’ democratic school culture perception, school commitments and academic willingnesses. In the framework of the relevant objective, the relationship between the perception of the democratic school culture and academic willingness has been examined whether the school commitment has a mediation effect. The sample of the study was formed by 682 high school students who continue to study in the Uşak or Central District. The data is collected by the Democratic School Culture Scale, the School Engagement Scale and the Academic Volunteer Scale. The research is designed in the relative scan model; the hypotheses based on the field are tested. In this scope, first and foremost, the average of the variables, the relationships between them and the regression rates between the variables were identified. Then the measurement model was calculated and the mediation effect was tested. The Sobel test was made to ensure the mediation effect was re-controlled. According to the research findings, the relationship between the student’s democratic school culture perception and academic desire has found that school commitments have a mediation effect. In light of the achieved results, recommendations were developed to the practitioners to create a democratic school culture. The researchers have been given recommendations for future research.

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