Investigation of the relationship between Androgen Receptor Gene CAG Repeat Polymorphisms and Turkish gifted students’ science attitudes

Year 2022, Volume: 10 Issue: 2, 149 - 157, 30.06.2022

Merve Kızılbay Kaya , Fikriye Polat

https://doi.org/10.17478/jegys.1100055

Abstract

This study aims to examine the AR gene CAG polymorphisms of gifted students, and to determine whether there is a relationship between this gene region and students' attitudes towards science. The research was conducted with randomly selected gifted students (N = 100) and normally developing students (N = 100) studying at the 5th grade level in Kocaeli, Turkey during the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 school years. In order to determine students' attitudes towards science, science and technology lesson attitude scale was applied. According to the results of the study, while there was no significant difference in terms of "enjoyment" and "social content of science" from the science and technology lesson attitude scale factors, it was found that there was a statistically significant difference in favor of gifted students from the "scale total scores" and "desire to learn" factors (p<0,05). In the genetic dimension of the study, no statistically significant difference was found between the two groups in AR gene CAG polymorphisms. In the whole sample, there was no significant relationship between the AR gene CAG polymorphisms and the "scale total score" values.

Keywords

Science Attitude, Androgen Receptor Gene, Genetic, Gifted students, Giftedness, Intelligence

Supporting Institution

Scientific Research Project Unit of Kocaeli University

Project Number

2018-105

Thanks

We would like to thank to Scientific Research Project Unit of Kocaeli University.

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