Turkish Adaptation of Toxic Leadership Scale: Validity and Reliability Study

Year 2025, Volume: 10 Issue: 2, 462 - 472, 19.12.2025

Özgür Kökalan , Murat Yalçın Kırca

Abstract

One of the most referenced and generally accepted scales used in the literature to measure the perception of 'toxic leadership' is the Toxic Leadership Scale prepared by Schmidt. In Schmidt’s scale, it was assumed that the toxic leader had five characteristics: abusive, authoritarianism, narcissism, self-promotion, and unpredictability, and a 30-item scale was created to measure these five factors. In our study, the scale prepared by Schmidt was adapted into Turkish. The questions prepared with the obtained scale were applied to 676 people in two separate samples, 392 public sector employees and 284 private sector employees. As a result of all reliability and validity analyses the Toxic Leadership Scale was adapted into Turkish and could be used as a measurement tool.

Keywords

Leadership , Toxic Leadership , Scale Adaptation

Ethical Statement

The Research Ethics Committee of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University reviewed and approved study E-20292139-050.01.04-9473 under the basic ethical standards for research involving humans outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki at its meeting numbered 2021/06 (July 06, 2021). Informed consent was acquired for every participant in the study.

Toksik Liderlik Ölçeğinin Türkçe Uyarlaması: Geçerlilik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması

Abstract

2000’li yıllardan itibaren literatüre giren toksik liderlik kavramının ölçülmesinde kullanılan ölçeklerde en çok referans verilenlerinden bir tanesi Schmidt, (2008) tarafından hazırlanan Toksik Liderlik Ölçeğidir. Ölçekte toksik liderin istismarcılık, otoriterlik, narsizm, kendini ön plana çıkarma ve öngörülebilirlik olmak üzere 5 özelliği olduğu belirtilmiş ve bu beş faktörü ölçmek üzere 30 maddelik bir ölçek oluşturulmuştur. Elde edilen ölçek ile hazırlanan sorular 392 kişilik kamu ve 284 kişilik özel sektör çalışanı olmak üzere toplam 676 kişiye uygulanmıştır. Yapılan tüm geçerlilik ve güvenilirlik analizleri sonucunda, Toksik liderlik ölçeğinin Türkçe’ye uyarlanmasının sağlandığı ve bir ölçme aracı olarak kullanabileceği sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.

Keywords

Liderlik , Toksik Liderlik , Ölçek Uyarlama

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