The Healthy Selfishness and Pathological Altruism Scale: Adaptation into Turkish and Validity and Reliability Study

Abstract

Selfishness and altruism are two concepts of paradoxical nature. Examination of these concepts according to individuals and cultures may provide a better understanding of the paradoxical structure in question. In this study, it was aimed to adapt the Healthy Selfishness and Pathological Altruism Scale (Kaufman & Jauk, 2020) into Turkish and to conduct a validity and reliability study. Before proceeding to the main study, a validity and reliability study was conducted with a study group of 122 (84 women & 38 men) adults to get preliminary information about the scale. The main study group of the research consisted of 570 (392 female, 178 male) adults. The two-factor structure of the scale was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. Healthy selfishness was positively related to self-love, self-efficacy, and altruism, whereas pathological altruism had a negative relationship with self-love, self-efficacy, and altruism. The Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient was .95 for healthy selfishness and .91 for pathological altruism. As a result, all findings showed that the Healthy Selfishness Pathological Altruism Scale is a valid and reliable measurement tool.

Keywords

• Healthy selfishness,
• pathological alturism,
• scale,
• adaptation,
• Turkhish.

Sağlıklı Bencillik ve Patolojik Özgecilik Ölçeği: Türkçe’ye Uyarlaması, Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması

Öz

Bencillik ve özgecilik, paradoksal nitelikte iki kavramdır. Bu kavramların bireylere ve kültürlere göre incelenmesi söz konusu paradoksal yapının daha iyi anlaşılmasını sağlayabilir. Bu çalışmada Sağlıklı Bencillik ve Patolojik Özgecilik Ölçeği'nin (Kaufman ve Jauk, 2020) Türkçe'ye uyarlanması, geçerlik ve güvenirlik çalışması yapılması amaçlanmıştır. Ana çalışmaya geçilmeden önce ölçek hakkında ön bilgi almak amacıyla 122 (84 kadın ve 38 erkek) yetişkinden oluşan bir çalışma grubu ile geçerlik ve güvenirlik çalışması yapılmıştır. Araştırmanın ana çalışma grubunu 570 (392 kadın, 178 erkek) yetişkin oluşturmuştur. Ölçeğin iki faktörlü yapısı doğrulayıcı faktör analizi ile doğrulanmıştır. Sağlıklı bencillik, öz-sevgi, öz-yeterlik ve özgecilik ile pozitif ilişkiliyken, patolojik özgecilik öz-sevgi, öz-yeterlik ve özgecilik ile negatif bir ilişkiye sahipti. Cronbach's alpha güvenirlik katsayısı sağlıklı bencillik için .95 ve patolojik özgecilik için.91'dir. Sonuç olarak, tüm bulgular Sağlıklı Bencillik Patolojik Özgecilik Ölçeği'nin geçerli ve güvenilir bir ölçme aracı olduğunu göstermiştir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Sağlıklı bencillik,
• patalojik özgecilik,
• ölçek,
• uyarlama
• Türkçe

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