Abstract :
The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of the boarding primary schools on the students’ psychological and social development. For this purpose, 6th-8th classes of Afyonkarahisar/Emirdağ Perihan Kemal Çuna Boarding Primary School has been used as a macrocosm in 2009-2010 academic year and by the help of “Cluster Sampling Method”, 87 students from 6/A and 8/A classes are picked up from the 235 students in this sampling. The personal data section of the survey which is developed for the research, consists of 2 questions and the main section consists of 25 questions. During the analysis of the datas,arithmetic average and standart deviation are used for the first subordinate problem; t-test and one sided variance analysis (ANOVA) are used for the second subordinate problem. Throughout the all statistical process, the significance level (p) is “.05”. It is understood that there isn’t a significant difference between the girls’ [t=2.446, p 05] and boys’ [t=2.504, p .05] conceptions about the effects of the boarding primary schools on the students’ psychological and social development in respect of sexual terms. However, girls’ conceptions ( X/bar/ =2.446) are more negative than boys’ ( X/bar/ =2.504). Again, there is no significant difference (only .05) in one sided variance analysis [F=.086, p .05] when we analyse the 6th-8th classes students’ conceptions about the effects of the boarding primary schools on the students’ psychological and social development in respect of their classes. As the arithmetic average of the answers of the 6th-8th classes students is ( X/bar/ =2,49), it is true to say that students’ conceptions about the boarding primary schools are “deficient” and the effects of the boarding primary schools on the students’ psychological and social development are “negative”.
