THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIFELONG LEARNING TENDENCIES AND LIFE QUALITY OF PARENTS THAT GIVE SPECIAL CARE

Tolga Şen, Levent Yayci

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The developments in the social, economic, technological, and health areas in society provide developments and changes in the care and welfare of disabled individuals. Studies in this area revealed the importance of learning in the realization of development and change and its effect on quality of life. One of the issues waiting for a solution is to integrate the disabled population with society and continue their lives without being cut off from social life, to be cared for correctly and on time, and to improve their quality of life in this context. For these reasons, it is important to investigate the disability together with the caregivers of the individual. The main purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between lifelong learning tendencies and the life quality of parents who provide special care. In addition, the relationship of these variables with sociodemographic variables such as age, gender, educational status, and disability rate and whether they show statistically significant differences are examined. This research is a quantitative study and the relational screening model is used. The sample group of the study consists of 85 voluntary disabled parents living in Fatsa district. "Personal Information Form", "Lifelong Learning Tendency Scale" and "Quality of Life Scale Turkish Version" are used to obtain the data. In the analysis of the data MS Excel and SPSS 26 package program are used. The normality of the distributions is checked using the Skewness and Kurtosis Analysis and the Shapiro-Wilk test. Pearson correlation analysis, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), and independent sample t-test are used for normally distributed data. Spearman-Brown correlation analysis, Mann Whitney - U test, and Kruskal Wallis H tests are used for abnormally distributed data. As a result of the analyzes, it is determined that there is a moderate and positive significant relationship between the lifelong learning tendencies of the parents who care for the disabled individuals and their life quality. After the results obtained in the research are discussed in the light of the literature, suggestions are made.

 

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lifelong learning, quality of life, disabled person, caring parent

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejse.v10i2.5286

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