Karakulak, Arzu

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Aydınlı-Karakulak, Arzu
Aydinli, A.
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karakulaka@mef.edu.tr
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04.02. Department of Psychology
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    Global Profiles of Positive Youth Development: a Person-Oriented Analysis Among Emerging Adults Living in 21 Countries
    (Springer/Plenum Publishers, 2025) Buenconsejo, Jet Uy; Ferrer-Wreder, Laura; Dimitrova, Radosveta; Pavlova, Iuliia; Bosnar, Ksenija; Bartoluci, Suncica; Altansukh, Suvdanchimeg; Karakulak, Arzu
    Although global research on the 5Cs model of Positive Youth Development (PYD; competence, confidence, connection, character, and caring) has expanded in recent years, there is a lack of understanding about distinct and consistent PYD profiles across youth from diverse socio-cultural contexts. To address this gap, this study utilized a person-oriented analytic approach to examine the PYD profiles of 11,481 emerging adults (Mage = 21.77; SDage = 2.74; 68.66% females) from 21 countries in four continents. Results of the multi-group latent profile analysis revealed four consistent profiles of PYD across countries: high/balanced (41%), self-efficacious (28%), socio-emotional (20%), and low/self-centered (11%). Participants' age, gender, educational attainment, and country-level collectivism were also found to be associated with specific profiles. Older and more-educated females from less collectivistic countries were more likely to be in a high/balanced profile, while younger males from more collectivistic countries tend to be in a low/self-centered profile. Older and more-educated males from less collectivistic countries were more likely to be in a self-efficacious profile, while younger and less-educated females from more collectivistic countries tend to be in a socio-emotional profile. Controlling these socio-contextual covariates, the four profiles exhibited distinct relations with adaptive (resilience and contribution) and maladaptive outcomes (anxiety and adverse life experiences) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results highlight the importance of fostering a balanced set of Cs, which include both self-efficacious and socio-emotional qualities, to promote positive adaptation in challenging times across diverse developmental settings.
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    Trust in Government Moderates the Association between Fear of COVID-19 as Well as Empathic Concern and Preventive Behaviour
    (Springer Nature, 2023) Karakulak, Arzu; Tepe, Beyza; Dimitrova, Radosveta; Abdelrahman, Mohamed; Akaliyski, Plamen; Alaseel, Rana; Alkamali, Yousuf Abdulqader
    With the COVID-19 pandemic, behavioural scientists aimed to illuminate reasons why people comply with (or not) large-scale cooperative activities. Here we investigated the motives that underlie support for COVID-19 preventive behaviours in a sample of 12,758 individuals from 34 countries. We hypothesized that the associations of empathic prosocial concern and fear of disease with support towards preventive COVID-19 behaviours would be moderated by trust in the government. Results suggest that the association between fear of disease and support for COVID-19 preventive behaviours was strongest when trust in the government was weak (both at individual- and country-level). Conversely, the association with empathic prosocial concern was strongest when trust in the government was high, but this moderation was only found at individual-level scores of governmental trust. We discuss how motivations may be shaped by socio-cultural context, and outline how findings may contribute to a better understanding of collective action during global crises.
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    Social Support and Help-Seeking Worldwide
    (Springer, 2024) Szkody, Erica; Spence, Anjolee; Ozdogru, Asil; Tushir, Bhawna; Chang, Fennie; Akkas, Handan; Cascalheira, Cory J.; Karakulak, Arzu
    Social support has long been associated with positive physical, behavioral, and mental health outcomes. However, contextual factors such as subjective social status and an individual's cultural values, heavily influence social support behaviors (e.g., perceive available social support, accept support, seek support, provide support). We sought to determine the current state of social support behaviors and the association between these behaviors, cultural values, and subjective social support across regions of the world. Data from 6,366 participants were collected by collaborators from over 50 worldwide sites (67.4% or n = 4292, assigned female at birth; average age of 30.76). Our results show that individuals cultural values and subjective social status varied across world regions and were differentially associated with social support behaviors. For example, individuals with higher subjective social status were more likely to indicate more perceived and received social support and help-seeking behaviors; they also indicated more provision of social support to others than individuals with lower subjective social status. Further, horizontal, and vertical collectivism were related to higher help-seeking behavior, perceived support, received support, and provision of support, whereas horizontal individualism was associated with less perceived support and less help-seeking and vertical individualism was associated with less perceived and received support, but more help-seeking behavior. However, these effects were not consistently moderated by region. These findings highlight and advance the understanding of how cross-cultural complexities and contextual distinctions influence an individual's perception, processing, and practice of social support embedded in the changing social landscape.
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    The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: Cross-National Measurement Invariance and Convergent Validity Evidence
    (Psychological assessment, 2024) Abdelrahman, Mohamed; Rudnev, Maksim; Adebayo, Damilola Fisayo; Karakulak, Arzu; Akaliyski, Plamen; Jovanovic, Veljko; Abdul Kadir, Nor Ba'yah
    Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) is a widely used measure that captures somatic symptoms of coronavirus-related anxiety. In a large-scale collaboration spanning 60 countries (Ntotal = 21,513), we examined the CAS's measurement invariance and assessed the convergent validity of CAS scores in relation to the fear of COVID-19 (FCV-19S) and the satisfaction with life (SWLS-3) scales. We utilized both conventional exact invariance tests and alignment procedures, with results revealing that the single-factor model fit the data well in almost all countries. Partial scalar invariance was supported in a subset of 56 countries. To ensure the robustness of results, given the unbalanced samples, we employed resampling techniques both with and without replacement and found the results were more stable in larger samples. The alignment procedure demonstrated a high degree of measurement invariance with 9% of the parameters exhibiting noninvariance. We also conducted simulations of alignment using the parameters estimated in the current model. Findings demonstrated reliability of the means but indicated challenges in estimating the latent variances. Strong positive correlations between CAS and FCV-19S estimated with all three different approaches were found in most countries. Correlations of CAS and SWLS-3 were weak and negative but significantly differed from zero in several countries. Overall, the study provided support for the measurement invariance of the CAS and offered evidence of its convergent validity while also highlighting issues with variance estimation.
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    The Impact of Gender on Perception and Consequences of Leadership
    (Türk Psikologlar Derneği, 2016) Arman, Gamze; Uysal-Irak, Doruk; Aydınlı-Karakulak, Arzu; Güleryüz, Evrim
    Bu panelde yer alan aras¸tırmalar cinsiyetler arasında liderligˆe bakıs¸ ac¸ıları ve zorbalık gibi durumlarla ilgili algılara odaklanmıs¸lardır. Saha c¸alıs¸ması yo¨ntemine dayanarak c¸alıs¸makta olan bireylerden veri toplamıs¸ olan ilk iki aras¸tırmacının aksine deneysel yo¨ntemleri kullanarak o¨gˆrencilerden veri toplayan aras¸tırmacılar analizlerinde bir takım cinsiyet farklılıkları go¨zlemlemis¸lerdir. Bulgular arasındaki benzerlik ve farklılıkların olası nedenleri panel kapsamında tartıs¸ılacaktır. Sunulacak olan ilk aras¸tırmanın (Uysal-Irak) sonuc¸ları u¨c¸ ayrı o¨rneklemle yapılan analizleri ic¸ermektedir. I·lk o¨rneklemdeki (n = 329; %49 kadın) bulgulara go¨re kadın ve erkek katılımcılar tarafından rapor edilen zorbalık davranıs¸ı hem toplam puanda hem de u¨c¸ alt fakto¨r ac¸ısından anlamlı bir fark go¨stermemektedir. I·kinci (n = 265; %53 kadın) ve u¨c¸u¨ncu¨ o¨rneklem (n = 267; %53 kadın) u¨zerinde yapılan analizler ise toplumsal cinsiyetin yas¸am doyumu, is¸ doyumu ve is¸ten ayrılma egˆilimi seviyelerinde farka yol ac¸madıgˆını go¨stermis¸tir. Veri toplama safhası su¨rmekte olan ikinci aras¸tırmanın (Gu¨leryu¨z & Giray) o¨n sonuc¸ları da ilk aras¸tırmayı destekler niteliktedir. Mevcut o¨rneklem (n = 100; %53 kadın) u¨zerinde yapılan analizler kadın ve erkek katılımcılar arasında algılanan katılımcı, babacan ve otoriter liderlik stillerinde, zorbalıkta ve algılanan istismar edici yo¨neticilik alanlarında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir farklılık bulunmamıs¸tır. Ayrıca, kadın ve erkek katılımcılar arasında tu¨kenmis¸ligˆin duygusal tu¨kenme, duyarsızlas¸ma ve kis¸isel bas¸arı duygusunda azalma boyutlarında da anlamlı bir farklılık ortaya c¸ıkmamıs¸tır. U¨c¸u¨ncu¨ aras¸tırmada (Arman) katılımcılar (n = 197; %78 kadın) bir hafta boyunca her gu¨n bir ofiste gec¸en ve istismarcı liderlik ic¸eren kısa hikayeler okumus¸ ve haftanın sonunda istismarcı yo¨netici ile ast seviyesindeki c¸alıs¸an (magˆdur kis¸i) arasındaki ilis¸kiyi ve istismarın go¨zlemcileri olarak magˆdur ic¸in ne yapmak istediklerini degˆerlendirmis¸lerdir. Sonuc¸lar kadın go¨zlemcilerin erkek go¨zlemcilere nazaran durumu daha az kabullenebilir olarak algıladıklarını ve magˆdura yardımcı olmaya daha meyilli olduklarını go¨stermis¸tir. Magˆdura yardımcı olma istegˆinde bireysel seviyedeki gu¨c¸ aralıgˆı yo¨neliminin de aracı oldugˆu ortaya c¸ıkmıs¸tır. Son olarak, aras¸tırmalarda ortaya c¸ıkan tu¨m benzerliklere ragˆmen mevcut kadın lider oranındaki du¨s¸u¨klu¨gˆu¨ go¨z o¨nu¨ne alarak yapılan deneysel c¸alıs¸mada (Aydınlı-Karakulak ve ark.) katılımcılar (n = 157; %67 kadın) bes¸ kis¸ilik gruplar halinde verilen bir go¨revi tamamlarken liderligˆin ortaya c¸ıkıs¸ su¨reci incelenmis¸tir. Bulgular kadınların erkeklere nazaran lider olmaya daha az istekli olduklarını ve liderlik kaygısının bu cinsiyet etkisine aracılık ettigˆini go¨stermektedir. Liderlik motivasyonunun ise bu su¨rec¸ u¨zerinde bir etkisi saptanmamıs¸tır.