O significado do dinheiro para os alunos de colégios públicos e privados de Santa Maria - RS

Abstract

The goal of the study was to analyze the significance of middle school students for money by comparing public colleges with private colleges and checking for differences between these groups. In order to achieve the general objective, 182 questionnaires were applied to students in the 3º year of secondary education at four public schools in Santa Maria- RS, and five private schools in Santa Maria- RS. The questionnaire was composed of 54 questions, and divided into two parts, the first part was questions about the socio-economic, demographic aspects and control of participant’s expenses, and the second part was about the meaning of money composed of 9 attributes: pleasure, power, conflict, detachment, suffering, progress, inequality, culture, stability and investment. The method used for the comparison between students from public and private schools was the test Mann-Whitney or test U. With the application of the U-test, only the investment factor presents a difference, the respondents from private schools in Santa Maria-RS are more subject to this variable. By interconnecting the result of this test with the verification of the fashions, it is possible to notice that the students of the public schools were indifferent to the investment factor while the students of the private schools present fashion 4, where they agree that the investment is a significant factor to the proposed theme.