Abstract:

This study was done with the aim of determining the relationship of high school students’ attitudes towards reading with different variables. The research was carried out according to the visual relative scan model from quantum research patterns. The study’s work group consists of a total of 384 students studying in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th classes of a secondary school located within the border of the Baykoz district of Istanbul in the 2017-2018 educational year. Quantitative data of the study were obtained with the "Personal Information Form" and the "Listening Attitude Measurement to High School Students" (Cakıroğlu and Palancı, 2015). In the analysis of the data, the T Test, the One Direction Variant Analysis and the Scheffe Test were used. This study focuses on the relationship between the age, gender, social and economic status of the family, the time spent on reading, the daily use of the internet and the time spent on television and the application of the weekly reading hours in their schools and what kind of reading they prefer. The study found that the scale of attitude to study in the middle school between the ages of 9-10 was higher than in the ages of 11-12 and 13-14. The attitude of girls to study is more positive than the attitude of boys to study. As the time to read the books daily increases, the attitude of students to read increases. There is a negative relationship between staying on the internet and the time of watching TV and the attitude towards reading. In light of these findings, recommendations were made to increase the attitude of high school students to read.