Comparison of high school students’ peer pressures who attend private and public high schools

The aim of this study is to compare the peer pressure of the students in different high schools. In our research, 108 volunteer participants that have been selected by the random sampling method in Beykent Doğa Anatolian High School and Beylikdüzü Cahit Zarifoğlu Anatolian High School students in İstanbul. A personal information form and the Peer Pressure Scale (PPS) which have been developed by Kıran (2002) have been used to collect the research data of the volunteers participating in the study. The obtained data have been recorded on the SPSS package program. The U-Test has been used to determine the participant’s peer pressure according to the schools and gender and the Kruskal Wallis test has been used to reach the data on father’s and mother’s educational attainment. As a result; when the findings have been examined, it has been found that there is no significant difference between the two schools according to the school situation. In addition, no significant difference has been found between the students who receive education in public and private schools according to gender, father’s and mother’s educational attainment status.