Author/Authors :
AKIN, Ahmet Sakarya Üniversitesi, Turkey , UYSAL, Recep Sakarya Üniversitesi, Turkey , ÇİTEMEL, Nihan Sakarya Üniversitesi, Turkey
Abstract :
Social safeness has been defined as the degree that people experience their social worlds as safe, warm, and soothing and it includes feelings of belonging, acceptance, and feelings of warmth from others. Social safeness is also related to how people experience pleasure, positive feelings and emotions in social situations. This study investigated the adaptability of the Social Safeness and Pleasure Scale (SSPS; Gilbert et al., 2009) to Turkish. The sample of study consists of 350 high school students. Results of confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that the eleven items loaded on one factor and the goodness of fit coefficients of unidimensional model were high (x²=71.82, df=40, p=0.00149, RMSEA=.048, NFI=.96, CFI=.98, IFI=.98, RFI=.95, GFI=.96, SRMR=.042). The internal consistency coefficient of the scale (Cronbach alpha) was .82. The corrected item-total correlations of SSPS ranged from .34 to .61. These results demonstrate that the measures obtained the Turkish version of seem considerably valid and reliable.
