The Predictive Power of Students' Pygmalion Perceptions on Broken Window Theory: An In-Class Empirical Research
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The self-fulfilling prophecy theory has entered the literature with the assumption that false belief patterns can turn into reality over time. Then, it has been applied to the classroom in educational sciences disciplinary and has been examined by researchers for more than fifty years in the literature as the "Pygmalion effect" with their findings on how the positive expectations of teachers affect the future academic success of students. The broken windows theory, which constitutes the other theoretical framework of the research, set out with the assumption that if small problems that are ignored are not intervened, they will grow like in the snowball metaphor and cause social events that cannot be overcome. This theory has entered educational sciences as a zero-tolerance policy and many negative results have been reported. When the literature is examined, it has been revealed that aspects of the Pygmalion effect have not been investigated except for its impact on academic or work performance. In line with this blind spot, the main purpose of the research is to discover the predictive power of the Pygmalion effect on organizational broken windows. The population of the present research consists of 400 students in the physical education and sports college of a state university. The research was carried out with a total of 195 samples using the simple random sampling method. In the data analysis, simple regression analysis, correlation, and regulatory effect analysis were performed, respectively. Looking at the results of the research, it was seen that the Pygmalion effect had a negative impact of -36% on the organizational broken window, and at the same time, sex and age variables did not have a regulatory effect on this impact. It has been observed that the sub-dimensions of the Pygmalion effect (social-emotional learning environment and input-opportunities-feedback) have a negative effect on the managerial factor, which is the sub-dimension of the organizational broken window scale. When the results of this study are considered holistically, it is thought to serve as an information marker for future research, as it reveals the effect of the Pygmalion effect upon reducing negative behavioral attitudes in broken windows theory in a broader understanding.
