THE ADAPTATION OF THE LEVELS OF EMOTIONAL AWARENESS SCALE: VALIDTY AND RELIABILITY STUDIES

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The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS) is a performance measure of the articulation of emotional awareness and consists of 20 vignettes. The purpose of this study was conduct to adaptation of LEAS to Turkish Culture. In this purpose validity and reliability were examined. The sample consisted of 405 undergraduates (195 female and 210 male). For validity; criteria based and content validity were utilized. For reliability; Cronbach Alpha internal consistency and test-retest were estimated. Factor analysis (Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis) indicated that revised Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale might be taken as a one-dimensional scale. The finding shows that, this scale can be used to with acceptable level of validity and reliability for Turkish undergraduate students.

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Duygusal Farkındalık Düzeyi Ölçeğinin Uyarlanması: Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışmaları

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Duygusal Farkındalık Düzeyi Ölçeği (DFDÖ), duygusal farkındalığın ifadesini değerlendiren ve 20 senaryodan oluşan bir performans ölçeğidir. Bu araştırmanın amacı DFDÖ’ nün Türk kültürüne uyarlanmasıdır. Bu amaca bağlı olarak bir dizi geçerlik ve güvenirlik çalışmaları gerçekleştirilmiştir. Çalışmada 195 tanesi kız 210 tanesi erkek olmak üzere toplam 405 üniversite öğrencisi bu yer almıştır. Yapı geçerliği ve ölçüt bağıntılı geçerlik ve yöntemleriyle ölçeğin geçerliğine bakılmıştır. Faktör analizi ölçeğin tek boyutlu olduğunu göstermiştir. Test-tekrar test ve iç tutarlık analizleri ölçeğin güvenilir olduğunu göstermektedir. Yapılan analizlerin sonucunda elde edilen bulgular, Türk üniversite öğrencilerinde geçerli ve güvenilir bir ölçme aracı olarak kullanılabileceğini göstermektedir.

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