Investıgation of Professional Commitment Level According to The Demographic Variables of Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School Students

Abstract

This research was conducted so as to determine the level of professional commitment towards tourism according to some demographic characteristics of 11th and 12th grade students who have been trained tourism in a Vocational and technical Anatolian High School in Istanbul and who have completed at least one term internship in tourism sector. In determining the level of professional commitment of students, "Professional Commitment Scale" by put forward Meyer et al. and Tak and Çiftçioğlu translated it into Turkish and conducted a reliability and validity study is used. Data were collected with questionnaire technique by the school administration from 290 students in 11th and 12th grade studying in the 2016-2017 academic year. As a result of the hypothesis tests performed by the Man Whitney-U test, significant differences were found in the level of commitment towards tourism profession, according to the students' gender and the characteristics of the business to do their internship. Also the results of the research show that there is no significant difference in the level of professional commitment according to the class levels of the students.