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The main purpose of this study is to examine the mediation role of personal meaning profile in the relationship between resilience capacity and meaning in life. Data has been collected from 371 college students using Resilience, Personal Meaning Profile and Meaning in Life Scales. Jamovi 1.1.4 statistical program has been used for the analysis of the data. In the study, it has been observed that there exist meaningful relationships between the sub-dimensions of the personal meaning profile and resilience besides meaning in life. Results show that there is a meaningful and positive relation between resilience and meaning in life. It has been also observed that there has been a positive relation between meaning in life and the achievement, relationship, self-transcendence, self-acceptance, intimacy, and fairness sub-dimensions of the personal meaning profile. However, no meaningful relationship between resilience and the religion sub-dimension of the personal meaning profile has been found. Considering the findings of the research, there is a significant mediation role of the personal meaning profile, except for the religion and self-acceptance sub-dimensions, in the relationship between the resilience capacity and the meaning in life. All findings have been discussed in terms of literature and the suggestion for further studies has been made. © 2021, Ozgen Korkmaz. All rights reserved. 2-s2.0-85104185634

In this study, it is aimed to determine which social support systems respectively preferred by students to meet their basic needs. The research was conducted with 347 university students from Sakarya University Faculty of Education, 243 of whom were female and 104 of whom were male. A ranking chart was used to determine the rank of fulfilment of the five basic needs of the students, as in the Maslow's hierarchy of needs, (physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization), by social support systems (family, relatives, friends, teacher-school, and society). The data was analyzed by rank order judgment scaling. As a result of the research, it was found that university students regard family as the primary social support system in meeting all their needs (physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization). The ranking does not change in meeting the needs of safety, love and belonging, and esteem; in meeting the physiological needs, it was observed that relatives are preferred more than friends. Another finding of the research is that in meeting the need for self-actualization, relatives are preferred the least.

The main purpose of the study is to determine whether the level of emotional expression is a predictor of psychological symptoms. The study was performed with 338 participants, including 170 women and 168 men. Data were collected by “Expressing Feelings Scale” and “SCL-90 Symptom Checklist-90-Revised”. Data was analyzed with Pearson product moment correlation coefficient and regression analysis was performed. According to results, emotional expression was significantly related to psychological symptoms. While the levels of emotional expression have increased, psychological symptoms have decreased. The levels of psychological symptoms was predicted significantly by emotional expression. Finally, emotional expression predicted higher levels of somatization and lower levels of phobic anxiety.

Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project examined the tears-social support intentions effect and possible mediating and moderating variables in a fully pre-registered study across 7007 participants (24,886 ratings) and 41 countries spanning all populated continents. Participants were presented with four pictures out of 100 possible targets with or without digitally-added tears. We confirmed the main prediction that seeing a tearful individual elicits the intention to support, d = 0.49 [0.43, 0.55]. Our data suggest that this effect could be mediated by perceiving the crying target as warmer and more helpless, feeling more connected, as well as feeling more empathic concern for the crier, but not by an increase in personal distress of the observer. The effect was moderated by the situational valence, identifying the target as part of one's group, and trait empathic concern. A neutral situation, high trait empathic concern, and low identification increased the effect. We observed high heterogeneity across countries that was, via split-half validation, best explained by country-level GDP per capita and subjective well-being with stronger effects for higher-scoring countries. These findings suggest that tears can function as social glue, providing one possible explanation why emotional crying persists into adulthood., National Science Centre, Poland; Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange Bekker Programme; Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office; Hungarian Brain Research Programme; Internal Fund of the Open University of Israel

Demetrovics, Zsolt/0000-0001-5604-7551; Kokkinos, Constantinos/0000-0002-8303-3769 WOS: 000478882200010 Over the past two decades, young people's engagement in online activities has grown markedly. The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between two specific online behaviors (i.e., cyberbullying perpetration, problematic social media use) and their relationships with social connectedness, belongingness, depression, and self-esteem among high school and university students. Data were collected from two different study groups via two questionnaires that included the Cyberbullying Offending Scale, Social Media Use Questionnaire, Social Connectedness Scale, General Belongingness Scale, Short Depression-Happiness Scale, and Single Item Self-Esteem Scale. Study 1 comprised 804 high school students (48% female; mean age 16.20 years). Study 2 comprised 760 university students (60% female; mean age 21.48 years). Results indicated that problematic social media use and cyberbullying perpetration (which was stronger among high school students) were directly associated with each other. Belongingness (directly) and social connectedness (indirectly) were both associated with cyberbullying perpetration and problematic social media use. Path analysis demonstrated that while age was a significant direct predictor of problematic social media use and cyberbullying perpetration among university students, it was not significant among high school students. In both samples, depression was a direct predictor of problematic social media use and an indirect predictor of cyberbullying perpetration. However, majority of these associations were relatively weak. The present study significantly adds to the emerging body of literature concerning the associations between problematic social media use and cyberbullying perpetration. Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office [K111938, KKP126835]; New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities Zsolt Demetrovics was supported by the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (Grant number: K111938, KKP126835). Orsolya Kiraly was supported by the New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities. The funding organization had no role in the design or conduct of the study or the collection, management, analysis, or interpretation of the data or the preparation, review, or approval of the article.

Bu çalışmanın amacı Gentile ve arkadaşları (2013) tarafından geliştirilen Narsisistik Kişilik Envanteri13 (NKE-13)’nin Türk kültüründeki psikometrik özelliklerini ortaya koymaktır. Ölçeğin uyarlama çalışması için Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesinin çeşitli fakültelerinde öğrenimine devam eden 308 üniversite devam eden beliren yetişnkilik dönemindeki öğrenciler ile çalışılmıştır. Ölçeğin yapı geçerliğinibelirlemek için ilk önce Doğrulayıcı Faktör Analizi (DFA) yapılmıştır, daha sonraki aşamda ise ölçeğiniç tutarlılık katsayısının belirlenmesi için Cronbach Alpha katsayısı Jamovi programı kullanılarak hesaplanmıştır. DFA sonucuna göre orijinal ölçekte de olduğu gibi, ölçeğin 3 faktörlü yapısı (liderlik/otorite, grandiyözite/ gösterişçilik, hak iddia etme/ sömürü) elde edilmiş ve elde edilenyapıya ilişkin ilişkin uyum indekslerinin iyi sonuç verdiği görülmüştür (?2=130, df=60, ?2/df=2.17; RMSEA=0,0614,CFI=0,938; TLI=0.919). Ölçeğin güvenirliğini belirlemek için yapılan güvenirlik analizinde ölçeğin bütünü için Cronbach Alpha içtutarlılık katsayısı .84, alt boyutlarda ise liderlik/otorite için .78, grandiyözite/gösterişçilik için .72 , hak iddia etme/sömürü için .61 bulunmuştur. Yapılan analiz sonuçlarınagöre üniversite öğrencileri için geliştirilen NKE-13 Türkçe uyarlama çalışmasının Türk kültüründe iyisonuçlar verdiği görülmüştür. Sonuçlar ölçme aracının Türkçe uyarlamasının geçerli ve güvenilir olduğunu oltaya koymuştur. The aim of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Turkish translation of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory-13 (NPI-13). This scale was developed by Gentile et al. (2013)/ NPI-13 Scale for college students was first translated into Turkish and then back-translated. Subsequently, the questionnaire was administered to 308 college students. The internal consistency of the scale was examined for reliability, and second-order confirmative factor analysis (CFA) was conducted using Jamovi program for the validity of the scale. CFA, similar to the original scale, confirmed the fit of the 3-factor model (Leadership/ Authority; Grandiose/ Exhibitionism; Entitlement/ Exploitativeness). (?2=130, df=60, ?2/df=2.17; RMSEA=0,0614, CFI=0,938; TLI=0.919). The internal consistency reliability coefficient of the whole scale is .84, Leadership/ Authority is .78, Grandiose/ Exhibitionism is .72, Entitlement/ Exploitativeness is .61. Our findings show that the Turkish version of the NPI-13 Scale has acceptable levels of reliability and validity for the selected samples.

Bu araştırmanın amacı, ilkokul düzeyindeki öğrencilerin sürekli kaygı düzeyleri ile yetkinlik düzeyleri ve üzüntü yönetim becerileri arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesidir. Araştırmanın çalışma grubunu Muğla İli Bodrum İlçesindeki bir İlkokul bünyesindeki 2. 3. ve 4. sınıf öğrencileri 105 kız öğrenci ve 106 erkek öğrenci olmak üzere toplam 211 öğrenci oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmada veriler için Sürekli Kaygı ölçeği (Öner ve Le Compte, 1985; Spielberger, Gorsuch ve Luschene, 1970) , Çocuklar için Öz-Yeterlik Ölçeği (Muris, 2001; Telef ve Karaca, 2012) ve Üzüntü Yönetimi Ölçeği (Akın ve diğ., 2014; Zeman, Shipman ve Penza-Clyve, 2001) kullanılmıştır. Verilerin istatistiksel analizi için Pearson Momentler Çarpımı Korelasyonu, t-testi ve yapısal eşitlik modeli kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda, üzüntü yönetiminin yetkinliği, yetkinliğin de sürekli kaygıyı anlamlı düzeyde açıkladığı bulunmuştur. Ayrıca üzüntü yönetiminin sürekli kaygıyı anlamlı düzeyde açıklamadığı fakat üzüntü yönetiminin sürekli kaygıyı yetkinlik inancı üzerinden yordadığı belirlenmiştir. Bunun yanı sıra araştırmada kullanılan kavramlar cinsiyet değişkeni açısından değerlendirildiğinde anlamlı bir fark bulunmamıştır. Bulgular alan yazın ışığında tartışılmıştır. Gelecek çalışmalar ve alan çalışanları için önerilerde bulunulmuştur The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between levels of self-efficacy, skills to sadness management, and trait anxiety of primary school students. Study group of the research consists of 211, which consists of 105 female, 106 male, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students in a Primary School. Trait Anxiety Scale (Öner & Le Compte, 1985; Spielberger et al., 1970), Self-Efficacy Scale for Children (Muris, 2001; Telef & Karaca, 2012) and Sadness Management Scale (Akın et al., 2014; Zeman, Shipman & Penza-Clyve, 2001) were used to collect data. Data analysis methods are Pearson Product Moment Correlation, t-test and structural equation model. As a result, sadness management explains self-efficacy; self-efficacy explains trait anxiety at significance level. Also, sadness management does not explain trait anxiety at significant level but sadness management predict trait anxiety over self-efficacy. There isn’t found any significant difference for gender. The findings are discussed in terms of literature. Suggestions for academicians and field workers are stated in the text