Secondary School Students’ Mental Images of the Concept of “Goodness”
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https://doi.org/10.61326/bes.v4i2.367Keywords:
Goodness, Mental image, Secondary schoolAbstract
We can say that the concept of goodness is a concept that is known by everyone in social life and that everyone has different views on this issue. Goodness is also a concept in which a positive or negative point of view is formed depending on the lifestyles, life expectations and social situations of individuals. The aim of this research is to reveal the differences of these perspectives and how much the gender status affects these differences through the mental images created by the students. The study group of this research consists of 28 female and 32 male secondary school students studying in Malatya. Data of secondary school students in the study group "Goodness is similar to ........., because ........." is obtained by completing the sentence. Content analysis technique was used in the analysis and interpretation of the obtained data. As a result of the research, it has been revealed that secondary school students girls and boys see "goodness" more as "the concept of goodness as a human perception".
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