Forgiveness Flexibility Scale For Secondary Education: Validity and reliability study<p>Ortaöğretim Öğrencilerinde Affetme Esnekliği Ölçeği: Geçerlik ve güvenirlik çalışması
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Forgiveness, Forgiveness Flexibility Scale, Validity, Reliability, Affetme, Affetme Esnekliği Ölçeği, Geçerlik, GüvenirlikAbstract
The aim of the study is to develop a scale which determines forgiveness flexibility level of secondary education students and to test reliability and validity of the scale. The study was actualized with 651 secondary education students. As result of exploratory factor analysis, which was used to test structure validity of the scale, a structure which explains 45.5% variance of total scale was attained. According to results of exploratory factor analysis, total 14 items collected at three factors. Factors were identified as recognition of forgiveness, internalization of forgiveness and practice of genuine forgiveness. When scale’s reliability study was made by split-half reliability method, correlation found .71 (p<.01). It can be said based on the findings that Forgiveness Flexibility Scale High School Form is a reliable and valid instrument which can be used in the fields of education and psychology.
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Araştırmanın amacı, ortaöğretim öğrencilerinde affetme esnekliğini belirleyen bir ölçek geliştirmek ve ölçeğin geçerlik ve güvenirliğini test etmektir. Araştırma 651 ortaöğretim öğrencisi ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Ölçeğin yapı geçerliliğini test etmek için kullanılan açımlayıcı faktör analizi sonucunda ölçeğin toplam varyansının %45.5’ini açıklayan bir yapı elde edilmiştir. Açımlayıcı faktör analizi sonuçlarına göre; toplam 14 madde, üç faktörde toplanmaktadır. Faktörler affetmeyi tanıma, affetmeyi içselleştirme ve gerçek affetmeyi uygulama olarak tanımlanmıştır. Ölçeğin güvenirlik çalışması testi ikiye ayırma yöntemi ile gerçekleştirildiğinde .71 (p<.01) korelasyon bulunmuştur. Bu sonuçlara dayanarak Affetme Esnekliği Lise Formu Ölçeğinin eğitim ve psikoloji alanında kullanılabilecek, geçerli ve güvenilir bir ölçme aracı olduğu söylenebilir.
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