A Research Project on The Self-Concepts of Working and Non Working Children on Ankara Streets

Abstract

The research was carried out to determine differences between the self-concepts of working and non working street children, and also to determine the effects of variables such as education level, number of siblings, birth order, age, first working age and duration of work in a day on the self-concept of children. The research sample was 142 boys in total, 71 of whom attend The Ankara Municipality center for working children on Ankara Streets and 71 of whom attend Tarhuncu Ahmet Paşa Primary School which teaches children from a low socio-economic level. “The General Information Fonn” and “Piers Harris Children’s Self Concept Scale” were used as data collection instruments. The data collected were analyzed by “One-Way Analysis of Variance” and “Two-Way Analysis of Variance”. The results of the research, showed that whether or not a child worked in the street caused significant differences on the self-concept level of children (p<0.01). Age, first working age, duration of work in a day, educational level, number of siblings and birth order of the children were not found statistically significant on the self-concept scores of the children (P>0.05).