Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to study whether the levels of post-traumatic stress disorder of the 12th grade students who suffered the Van earthquake vary according to some variables. This research was carried out with visual scanning and relative scanning patterns from general scanning models. The universe of research is formed by students studying in the 12th grade of the schools in Van's Erciş district. The examples of the study consist of 320 students selected by random methods from the universe. In this study, the data was collected using the "Participant Information Form", the "Posttraumatic Stress Sign Scale". The data analysis used the frequency, t test and Mann Whitney U test, and these analyses were done on the computer with the SPSS 22.00 statistical package program. The study found that 42.6 per cent of students who experienced the Van earthquake had a mild traumatic stress level, 36.7 per cent traumatic stress level was medium, 19.4 per cent traumatic stress level was medium and 1.3 per cent traumatic stress level was heavy. According to the gender of the students, girls experience a higher level of TSSB than boys. There has also been a meaningful relationship between the student's feeling of earthquake, the loss of their relatives in the earthquake and the conditions of staying under waste and the students' TSSB levels. The severity of the earthquake, the effects of the earthquake on persons, the experience after the earthquake has been found to have an effect on the formation of possible psychological problems. Even though 7 years have passed since the earthquake, the students have seen the psychological effects of the earthquake.