ERGENLİK DÖNEMİNDE DUA VE İBADETE YÖNELİK TUTUM VE DAVRANIŞLAR ÜZERİNE BİR SAHA ARAŞTIRMASI

A Field Research About Attitudes and Behaviors of Adolescence Period Towards Prayer and Worship In this article, the results of field research about the formation of religious attitudes and behaviors of adolescence towards prayer and worship with relation to some kind of variables are given. To attain the results in this research the sample of 450 adolescence was chosen randomly from the population of secondary school adolescence in Bursa. Then they were given a questionnaire. The questionnaire results from the sample were analyzed by the statistical technique of chi-square. And the difference between observed value and expected value was examined in relation to independent variables of sex, age, socio-economic status, school variety and level of religious belief. By the statistical results it is found that ‘there is a meaningful difference between pray and worship behaviors and basic developmental characteristics of adolescence period; when the praying is most widespread in the adolescence period; the interest in and practice of worships is at a lower level.’ Thus the main and related hypotheses of this research were confirmed highly [p < .05; .01; .001].