İmam Hatip Ortaokulu Öğrencilerinin Rol Model Tercihleri Ölçeği: Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması

Role Model Preferences Scale of Imam Hatip Secondary School Students (IHSS- RMPS) it is a scale based on social learning theory. It aims to determine which features are effective in the modelling preferences of Imam Hatip Secondary School (IHSS) students. The main purpose of the probe is to analyze the validity and reliability of the IHSSRMPS scale. The research was carried out voluntarily on 357 students educating at 11 İ HSS in Ankara, 225 female and 132 male. Sub-sequently of the study, a reliable and valid scale was developed which included 15 items under 3 factors, explaining a total variance of 72.74%. The scale factors were named as Extrovert Personality Traits, Religious Life Traits and Introvert Personality Traits. The model fit of the structure reached by exploratory factor analysis was confirmed by testing with confirmatory factor analysis.  Extended Abstract Humans, who are social beings, need role models that they will follow by being influenced by their words, attitudes and behaviours in their physical, emotional, moral, personality and psycho-social developments. Role models, which are de- fined as “people and groups that one follows one's goals, attitudes or behaviours, identifies with and tries to imitate”, while these role models are close relatives such as parents and family elders in the early years of childhood and adolescen-ce, they may become friends, teachers, TV series and movie and media celebri- ties as the age progresses. The realization of learning through observation and imitation is an issue that social learning theory emphasizes. According to the theory, the individual observes the behaviour of others in the early stages of his/her development and then begins to imitate these behaviours by going thro- ugh certain mental processes. According to Albert Bandura, representative of the theory, moral consideration and moral behaviour are also affected by observa- tion and modelling. Especially during the school period, the individual models religious norms and rules, customs and traditions, attitudes and behaviours on people she/he consciously chooses. In the literature, there are studies focused on how the content that children and young people take as models through observation in their family, school and social environment, and which they are influenced by the education curriculum and mass media, affects their role model preferences. The studies were carried out with qualitative and quantitative methods, but there was no study using the scale, which has high validity and reliability and is suitable for performing ad-vanced statistical operations, especially analyzes may be required again if applied to teaching levels other than this group.