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Emel Altın & Murat Kasımoğlu
First of all, reliability and validity analysis were performed, then explanatory factor anal-
ysis and basic component analysis were achieved and this featured the study as an
empirically focused study on the political participation perceptions of young people in
Şırnak where is in development process. As a result, four factors were determined for
political participation of youth. Then, each factor in the measurement was analyzed with
descriptive statistical methods. Finally, it has been tested whether it created a difference
between demographic properties (gender, age and educational field) and membership to
organizations engaged in activities related to youth on perception of young people about
political participation. Non-parametric statistical tests were used while hypotheses were
tested because the data were not normally distributed. The analysis of the scale were
invekstigated in SPSS v.23.
2. Results
Descriptive Analysis:
252 (50.2%) young boys and 250 (49.8%) young girls were randomly selected. The num-
ber of young people in the age range of 14-15 years was 103 (20.5%), the number of
young people in the age range of 16-17 was 224 (44.6%) and the number of young people
in the age range of 18-19 was 175 (34.9%). 276 (55%) of the young people included in
the sampling were educated in ‘equal weighted field’ while 191 (38%) were educated in
‘mathematics and science field’. The remaining 35 young people (7%) did not mention
their educational field. 322 young people (64.1%) did not have any membership to organ-
izations engaged in activities related to youth and 178 of them (35,5%) had a membership
to organizations engaged in activities related to youth in the sampling. The remaining
0.4% did not specify whether or not they had a membership to organizations engaged in
activities related to youth. As the ages of young people increase, it seems that their mem-
berships to organizations engaged in activities related to youth also increases. While 2%
of young people between the ages of 14-15 have memberships to organizations engaged
activities related to youth, 6% of young people between the ages of 16-17 have member-
ships to organizations engaged activities related to youth. Besides, 5,6% of young people
between the ages of 18-19 have memberships to organizations engaged activities related
to youth. It was found that there is a significant difference between boys and girls in re-
spect to a membership to organizations engaged activities related to youth. While male
membership rate was 31.1%, this rate was 4,4% for girls. While 18.7% of young people
who are educated in ‘equal weighted field’ had memberships to organizations engaged
in voluntary activities, 12.9% of young people who are educated in ‘mathematics and
science field’ had memberships to organizations engaged in voluntary activities. A total
of 50 young people gave answer to the question about the membership of organizations
engaged in voluntary activities. Their average membership duration was 8.6 months. A
total of 30 young people gave answer to the question of active participation in an activity.
Their average duration of being active in these activities was 11.3 months.
