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The aim of this study is to analyze the extensiveness of violence tendency to depending on individual
and family factors in adolescents. For this purpose, information has been collected from 899 high school students
educated in state schools located in Adana province. Violence Tendency Scale (VTS) developed by Haskan and
Yıldırım (2012) has been used in order to determine the violence tendency levels of the students. The prevalence of
students’ tendency has been tested with chi-square. When analyzed in terms of individual characteristics, violence
tendency has been found more extensive in boys rather than girls, and more extensive in the students watching
violence and heroic movies. When it is analyzed in terms of family factors, violence tendency has been found to be
more spread with the students experiencing violence at home, and having families using alcohol compared to the ones
experiencing neither violence nor alcohol cases. Moreover, students whose fathers work and earn money display
more tendency to violence than the ones whose fathers doesn’t make money by working. Besides, students having
family members in prison have been understood to be more tend to violence.
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