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An Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Scale in Turkey: Implications for Other Non-Weird Countries
(Wiley, 2023) Selçuk, Bilge; Tuncay, İpek; Arikan, Kübra; Yavus-Muren, H. Melis; Ruffman, Ted
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a very widely used scale in which parents, teachers or the child rate various aspects of the child's well-being. It is widely used in the Western world and is translated into 80+ languages. It is also used in countries that do not classify as WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic). However, unlike WEIRD countries, some studies indicate that the psychometric properties of the SDQ when used in non-WEIRD countries are questionable. Therefore, we gave the SDQ to the mothers and teachers of 310 3- to 5-year-olds in urban centres of Turkey and examined its psychometric properties. Turkey is not a WEIRD country because it is not Western, although the participants in our study were well educated, living in an industrialized area, rich relative to others in Turkey (although poor relative to Westerners) and democratic. As such, it is not drastically different from WEIRD countries and our question was whether even relatively small deviations from standard WEIRD criteria could result in questionable psychometric properties for the SDQ.
Examining the Indirect Role of Perceived Normativeness in the Association Between Collectivistic Values and Psychological Control of Turkish Mothers
(Wiley, 2023) Yavuz, Hatice Melis; Tuncay, İpek; Ruffman, Ted; Selçuk, Bilge
Parental psychological control has previously been related to negative developmental outcomes. However, fewer studies examined the cultural factors associated with parental psychological control. Several studies suggested that psychological control is used more by mothers in collectivistic (as compared to individualistic) cultures yet did not examine the mother's personal endorsement of the cultural values. This approach ignores the widely reported findings showing within country heterogeneity. In this study, we examined maternal adherence to collectivistic values and their psychologically controlling behaviour directed towards their preschool children. We also examined the indirect role of perceived normativeness of the psychologically controlling behaviour in the association between adherence to collectivistic values and using psychologically controlling behaviours. We hypothesized that mothers who endorsed collectivistic values more would perceive psychologically controlling parenting as more normative and in turn would display more psychological control. To test our research question, we collected data from 318 Turkish mothers, who had at least one preschool-aged child (child Mage = 59.46 months, SD = 9.23; range = 34-80 months; 160 males). The descriptive analyses are planned to be run in SPSS and path analyses in mplus are planned for examining the hypothesized mediational model.
Gain Sensitivity and Cheating: the Role of Psychological Entitlement
(Hogrefe, 2023) Şahin, Türkay; Demircan, Nilhan; Koloğlugil, Serhat; Peker, Müjde
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Interpersonal Factors and Suicidal Behavior During Covid-19 in Young Adults in Turkey
(Hogrefe, 2023) Çalışkan, Neslihan; Şahin, Banu Çankaya; Caine, Eric D.
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Interplay of Neighborhood and Psychosocial Factors in Predicting Trajectories of Allostatic Load Among Latinx Adults in the United States
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2025) Gutiérrez, Á.; Supiyev, A.; Thomas Tobin, C.; Sevi, B.; Marroig, A.; Voll, S.; Muniz-Terrera, G.
Research highlights the independent roles of neighborhood and psychosocial risk and protective factors for accelerated physiological aging. However, the combined role of neighborhood and psychosocial factors for allostatic load among Latinx adults in the U.S. remains unclear. Informed by the Health Disparities Framework, the study aims are to: (1) examine the direct associations between neighborhood (cohesion and disorder) and psychosocial (loneliness) factors, respectively, and allostatic load trajectories; and (2) determine whether family social support moderates the association between loneliness and allostatic load trajectories. Data for Latinx adults ages ≥50 (n = 319) are from the Health and Retirement Study (waves 2006–2016). Linear mixed models estimated baseline and rate of change in allostatic load, adjusting for sociodemographics. Loneliness was positively associated with baseline allostatic load. This association persisted when we considered neighborhood factors. Family social support moderated the association between loneliness and allostatic load slope. As neighborhood features, loneliness, and physiological dysregulation are each associated with worse cognitive outcomes, findings underscore the protective role of family social support for physiological dysregulation, thereby promoting cognitive resilience. © The Author(s) 2025.
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Organizational Humor as Making Our Work More Meaningful: Mediation by Crafting Job Resources
(De Gruyter, 2022) Keskin, İrem N.; Turnalar Çetinkaya, Neslihan; Bora, Gamze; Gümrükçü, Şeyma; İkan, Reyhan
In the present study, we examined the impact of humor’s positive functions on the perception of a job’s meaningfulness. We argued that liberating and stress-relieving humor act as job resources enhancing job crafting to increase social and structural resources to experience meaningfulness. We hypothesized that crafting the job to increase structural and social resources would mediate the link between organizational humor functions (i.e., liberating and stress-relieving) and meaningfulness. We conducted a cross-sectional study among 200 Turkish employees from different occupations. Our results revealed that increasing structural resources mediated the relationship between liberating humor and meaningfulness, while this mediation was partially for stress-relieving humor. The mediating role of increasing social resources was partial and conditional for both types of organizational humor functions. The practical and theoretical implications have been discussed from a positive organizational scholarship perspective.
The Cheating Paradox: Why Do Anxiously Attached People Engage in Infidelity More? Fear of Being Single as an Underlying Mechanism
(Hogrefe, 2023) Urgancı, Betül; Sevi, Barış; Sakman, Ezgi
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Turkish Adaptation of the Fear of Spiders Questionnaire: Reliability and Validity in Non-Clinical Samples
(Taylor & Francis, 2016) Booth, Robert William; Öztop, Pınar; Peker, Müjde
The rapid, objective measurement of spider fear is important for clinicians, and for researchers studying fear. To facilitate this, we adapted the Fear of Spiders Questionnaire (FSQ) into Turkish. The FSQ is quick to complete and easy to understand. Compared to the commonly used Spider Phobia Questionnaire, it has shown superior test–retest reliability and better discrimination of lower levels of spider fear, facilitating fear research in non-clinical samples. In two studies, with 137 and 105 undergraduates and unselected volunteers, our adapted FSQ showed excellent internal consistency (Cronbach’s ? = .95 and .96) and test–retest reliability (r = .90), and good discriminant validity against the State–Trait Anxiety Inventory—Trait (r = .23) and Beck Anxiety Inventory—Trait (r = .07). Most importantly, our adapted FSQ significantly predicted 26 students’ self-reported discomfort upon approaching a caged tarantula; however, a measure of behavioural avoidance of the tarantula yielded little variability, so a more sensitive task will be required for future behavioural testing. Based on this initial testing, we recommend our adapted FSQ for research use. Further research is required to verify that our adapted FSQ discriminates individuals with and without phobia effectively.
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What Predicts Perceived Discrimination Among White Americans? Findings From Two Nationally Representative Studies
(Wiley, 2023) Vollhardt, Johanna Ray; Okuyan, Mukadder; Stewart, Andrew
Many national or racial majority groups increasingly perceive discrimination against their group, despite objective indicators of advantage. The present studies simultaneously test three individual-level explanations of perceived discrimination among White Americans: system legitimizing beliefs, economic precarity, and group interest, in addition to corresponding predictors at the context (state) level. Using multilevel analysis, we analyzed nationally-representative data from the 2016 American National Election Survey (N = 2631)-an election period marked by discourse about majority group grievances. Results showed that, at the individual level, system-legitimizing beliefs (symbolic racism, conservatism, realistic, and symbolic threat) predicted perceived discrimination among Whites, as did objective (income) and subjective (perceived financial insecurity) economic precarity. Conversely, group interest (indicated by White racial identification) was not a significant predictor. At the state level, support for the Republican candidate also predicted perceived discrimination. These findings replicated with data from the 2012 American National Election Survey (N = 3261). We discuss the implications of White Americans' discrimination claims in the current socio-political climate.

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