e-Uluslararası Eğitim Araştırmaları Dergisi

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The major aim of
this research is to identify the fourth grade primary school students’ views
and attitudes towards respect and tolerance for the emotions and thoughts. A
convergent parallel pattern, one of the mixed research methods, was used in the
study. The quantitative research sample constitutes 492 fourth grade primary
school students who study within the province of Elazig and who were selected
through the random sampling method. The qualitative sample of the study is
consisted of 15 primary school students selected by convenience sampling
method. The research deployed three data collection tools: Personal information
form, a semi-structured interview form and the "A Scale for the Attitudes
towards Respect and Tolerance for the Emotions and Thought". Descriptive
statistics and multivariate analysis of variance were used during quantitative
data analysis, and content analysis was preferred for the analysis of
qualitative data. No significant difference has been found between students’
respect for thoughts subdimension in terms of gender; whereas students’ respect
for emotions and tolerance vary across gender. The difference has been
determined to be in favor of female students. There has been no significant
difference in respect to the subdimensions of respect for emotions and thoughts
in terms of mother occupation status, yet a significant difference has been
found in the subdimension of tolerance in favor of those whose mothers work.
Likewise, students’ views regarding respect for emotions and tolerance do not
differ depending upon father occupation status, while a significant difference
exists in terms of the respect for emotions.