مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - The Adaptation Study of Real Life Situation Scenario Information Technologies Scale to Turkish

Abstract :

Ethical use of information technologies studies in the literature has been used widely in scenario-based scales. Because of limited usage of such scales in Turkey, Real-Life Situation Scenarios Information Technologies Ethics (RLSSITE) Scale, which was developed by Yoon (2011), was adopted in Turkish in this study. RLSSITE Scale is based on moral philosophy and the problems encountered in the use of information technologies. The original version of RLSSITE Scale is English, and the seven-point Likert-type. RLSSITE Scale consists of 17 items. The views of language and IT specialists got during the adaptation of the RLSSITE Scale in Turkish process. Pre-test was conducted in line with the feedback. Linguistic validity study (n = 87), and the structural validity and reliability studies (n = 362) were made. It was found a significant correlation (p .00) between the English version of the RLSSITE Scale and the Turkish version of the scale. According to the principal component analysis, it was determined that the factor loads of all items were high in the first dimension. It was also found that all of the scenarios were discriminated and revealed an internal consistency for all scenarios was high. As a result of this study, it was determined that RLSSITE Scale can be accepted as a valid and reliable tool which can be used in Turkish.