Okul Bina Kalitesinin Okul Kaynaklı Sağlık Sorunlarına Etkisi: Türkiye ve ABD Karşılaştırması
School Buildings, Health Issues in School and School Life Satisfaction: Turkey and the USA Comparison

Summary/Abstract: Schools are places of production and transformation. They play an important role in preventing or improving students' physiological, bodily, social and psychological development and life satisfaction. Their development motivates the students to learn, and provides rich learning opportunities. New types of schools increase the effectiveness of education by improving physical and emotional health and quality of life. In this study, “the school buildings’ impact on physical and emotional health” was examined in comparison with the USA; quantitative research method was used. The sample of the study was selected by stratified and random sampling. "Quality School Building Scale” and “Health Scale in School” have been used as data collection tools. A total of 225 scales were used in the research. Multiple regression testing were performed together with basic statistics in data analysis. The analysis were made with in SPSS (Hayes, 2018). According to Turkey’s the research results, the school building with acoustics and lighting dimensions explain twelve percent of the the change of physical health at school; and fifteen percent of the emotional health change. According to US research results, the sight distance dimension of the school building quality explains ten percent of the change in emotional health at school.

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