Abstract:

This research has been conducted among 133 volunteering women between the dates of 17th of September – 21st of December 2018 for the purpose of analyzing the social exclusion and life satisfaction of the served women in the Sakarya Women’s Education And Culture Center, which is an affiliate institution of the Altındağ Municipality. In the research the data were gathered through several ways including face-to-face interview method, the Socio-demographic information form, “Social Exclusion Scale” which was adapted by Bayram et al. and “Life Satisfaction Scale” which was translated into Turkish by Bekmezci and Mert (2018). SPSS 22.0 was used analyzing the data and by measuring the required arithmetic means, standard deviation and percentage values, the levels of social exclusion and life satisfaction of women; t-test per several socio-demographic variables and Anova test were used. The result of the study showed that the social exclusion levels of women receiving service from Sakarya Women’s Education and Culture Center were low and their life satisfaction levels were relatively high; that variables such as working status, marital status and family type did not cause statistically significant differences on social exclusion levels and life satisfaction of women; in contrast, it was found that the age of women on their life satisfaction and education level on their social exclusion levels caused a significant difference and there was a low, significant and negative relationship between social exclusion levels and life satisfaction of women. In line with these results it is recommended to spread the Women’s Education and Culture Centers in the country, improve and update the content of services and programs in the centers and hire social workers in these centers.

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