Ümran Akin

Mediating Role of Mindfulness on the Associations of Friendship Quality and Subjective Vitality.

This research investigated the mediator role of mindfulness on the relationship between friendship quality and subjective vitality. Participants were 273 university students (M age = 21 years, SD = 1.1) who completed a questionnaire package that included the Friendship Quality Scale, the Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale, and the Subjective Vitality Scale. Both mindfulness and subjective vitality were correlated positively with friendship quality and subjective vitality was correlated positively with mindfulness. Mindfulness mediated the relationship between friendship quality and subjective vitality. Together, the findings illuminate the importance of friendship quality in psychological and cognitive adjustment.

The Mediating Role of Social Safeness on the Relationship between Facebook® Use and Life Satisfaction

The present study examined the mediating role of social safeness on the relationship between Facebook® use and life satisfaction. The participants were 370 university students (M age = 20.2 yr., SD = 1.0) who completed a questionnaire package that included the Bergen Facebook® Addiction Scale, the Social Safeness and Pleasure Scale, and the Life Satisfaction Scale. According to the results, social safeness and life satisfaction were predicted negatively by Facebook® use. On the other hand, life satisfaction was predicted positively by social safeness. In addition, social safeness mediated on the relationship between Facebook® use and life satisfaction. The results were discussed in the light of the related literature.

Examining the relationship between authenticity and self-handicapping.

Self-handicapping includes strategies of externalization in which people excuse failure and internalize success, but which also prevents them from behaving in an authentic way. The goal was to investigate the relation of authenticity with self-handicapping. The study was conducted with 366 university students (176 men, 190 women; M age = 20.2 yr.). Participants completed the Turkish version of the Authenticity Scale and the Self-handicapping Scale. Self-handicapping was correlated positively with two factors of authenticity, accepting external influence and self-alienation, and negatively with the authentic living factor. A multiple regression analysis indicated that self-handicapping was predicted positively by self-alienation and accepting external influence and negatively by authentic living, accounting for 21% of the variance collectively. These results demonstrated the negative association of authenticity with self-handicapping.

Arkadaşlık Kalitesi ve Öznel Mutluluk: Öznel Zindeliğin Aracılık Rolü

The aim of the present study is to examine the mediating effect of subjective vitality on the relationship between friendship quality and subjective happiness. Participants were 271 university students who completed a questionnaire package that included the Friendship Quality Scale, the Subjective Vitality Scale, and the Subjective Happiness Scale. According to the results, both subjective happiness and subjective vitality were predicted positively by friendship quality. On the other hand, subjective happiness was predicted positively by subjective vitality. In addition, subjective vitality mediated on the relationship between friendship quality and subjective happiness. The results were discussed in the light of the related literature and dependent recommendations to the area were given.

Self-compassion as a predictor of social safeness in Turkish university students

There are few studies that have examined the role of self-compassion in the context of social life, while self-compassion appears to enhance interpersonal relationship skills. The purpose of this study is to examine the predictive role of self-compassion on social safeness. Participants were 401 university students (213 women, 188 men; M age= 20.5 yr.). In this study, the Self-compassion Scale and the Social Safeness and Pleasure Scale were used. The relationships between self-compassion and social safeness were examined using correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. In the correlation analysis, self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness factors of self-compassion were found to be positively related, and self-judgment, isolation, and over-identification factors of self-compassion were found to be negatively related to social safeness. According to regression results, social safeness was predicted positively by mindfulness, self-kindness, and common humanity. Further isolation predicted social safeness in a negative way. The regression model explained 28% of the variance in social safeness. Together, the findings illuminate the importance of self-compassion on social adjustment. The results are discussed in the light of the related literature.

Academic potential beliefs and feelings and life satisfaction: the mediator role of social self-efficacy / Creencias y sentimientos sobre el potencial académico y satisfacción vital: el rol mediador de la autoeficacia social

Abstract The aim of the present study is to examine the mediating role of social self-efficacy on the relationship between academic potential beliefs and feelings and life satisfaction. Participants were 332 university students who completed a questionnaire package that included the Academic Potential Beliefs and Feelings Scale, Cognitive and Behavioural Social Self-efficacy Scale and the Satisfaction with Life Scale. To determine the relationships among academic potential beliefs and feelings, social self-efficacy and life satisfaction, the Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analyses were used. In order to test whether social self-efficacy mediated the link between academic potential beliefs and feelings and life satisfaction with regression analyses, Preacher and Hayes macros for SPSS were used. According to the results, social self-efficacy and life satisfaction were predicted positively by academic potential beliefs and feelings. On the other hand, life satisfaction was predicted positively by social self-efficacy. In addition, the association between academic potential beliefs and feelings and life satisfaction was fully mediated by social self-efficacy. Together, the findings illuminate the social processes underlying the association of academic potential beliefs and feelings with life satisfaction.

The Validity and Reliability of the Turkish Version of the Motivational Persistence Scale

The aim of this research is to adapt the Motivational Persistence Scale (Constantin, Holman, and Hojbotă, 2011) to Turkish and to examine its psychometric properties. The research was conducted on 539 university. The correlation between the original and Turkish version of the scale was .88. Exploratory factor analysis showed that KMO measure of sampling adequacy of .87, and Bartlett Sphericity test χ2= 611.798 (p

İnternet Öz-yeterliği Ölçeği Türkçe Formunun Geçerlik ve Güvenirliği

Bu arastirmanin amaci Internet Oz-yeterligi Olcegini (Kim ve Glassman, 2013) Turkceye uyarlamak ve gecerlik ve guvenirligini incelemektir. Arastirma 235 universite ogrencisi uzerinde yurutulmustur. Dogrulayici faktor analizi sonucunda 17 maddeden ve bes alt boyuttan (yaraticilik, ayrimlastirma, organizasyon, iletisim ve arastirma) olusan modelin iyi uyum verdigi bulunmustur (x²= 267.62, sd= 159, RMSEA= .076, CFI= .94, IFI= .94, SRMR= .069). Olcegin ic tutarlilik guvenirlik katsayilari arastirma alt boyutu icin .75, ayrimlastirma alt boyutu icin .87, organizasyon alt boyutu icin .86, yaraticilik alt boyutu icin .88, iletisim alt boyutu icin .83, olcegin butunu icin .94 olarak bulunmustur. Olcegin duzeltilmis madde toplam korelasyonlari .52 ile .77 arasinda siralanmaktadir. Bu sonuclara gore olcegin Turkce formunun gecerli ve guvenilir bir olcme araci oldugu soylenebilir.