African Journal of Estate and Property Management

ISSN 2756-3308

African Journal of Estate and Property Management ISSN 9671-8498 Vol. 3 (8), pp. 001-010, August, 2016. © International Scholars Journals

Full Length Research Paper

Demographic variables and levels of life satisfaction: The case of students enrolled in apprenticeship training

Hasan Bozgeyikli1*, Abdullah I   iklar1 and Susran Erkan Eroğlu2

1Faculty of Education, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey.

2Faculty of Education, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey.

Accepted 13 March, 2016

Abstract

The aim of this research is to observe apprenticeship students’ life satisfaction levels related to several environments (friend, school, environment, family and self) according to some variables (parents’ educational situation, parents’ profession, pleasure from job and pleasure of working conditions. The scope of the study was 548 apprenticeship students. “Multidimensional life satisfaction questionnaire” was used as data collecting medium. There is a significant difference according to parents’ educational levels at students’ friend, school, family, environment and self dimensions. There are significant differences at all dimensions except self dimension according to income level. According to pleasure from job variable there are significant differences at the all dimensions of life satisfaction of the students who were pleased from their professions chosen compared to the students who were not pleased from their professions. The results of this study were discussed according to related literature and recommendations were made for future researches.

Key words: Life satisfaction, well-being, apprenticeship, apprenticeship training.