Accepted 24^th July, 2020

Veysel Temel, Kazım Nas and Mehmet Dalkılıç

Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University, Physical Education And Sports High School, Turkey.

Violence is a common public problem in the society. Furthermore, the aggressive and violent behaviors of adolescents have negative impacts on the society. Exposure to violence has been shown to negatively affect successs, motivation and mental health. The goal of the study was to describe the attitudes to the violence in a sample of Turkish different branches teachers. Three types of attitudes were assessed: Crime and war, corporal punishment and partner violence. Data were obtained from 149 Turkish different branch teachers. To measure the attitude of different branches teachers’ towards to violence a 17 item likert scale developed by Davidson ve Canivez (2012) and adapted into Turkish by Akın et al. (2016) was used. The skewness and kurtosis normality distribution test was used to determine whether the measurements are suitable for normality. As a result, t-test and One way - Anova tests were applied bacause of the normal distribution in all dimensions. And post hock sheff tests were used to determine the source of the difference. In conclusion, general attitudes of the teachers towards violence and crime and war scores were about mid level, corporal punishment scores and partner violence were significantly lower. The results highlight the importance of research on violence attitudes to assess gender differences. So men have higher attitudes to the violence than the women.

Key words: Attitude, violence, teachers.