Forgiveness Flexibility Scale For Secondary Education: Validity and reliability studyOrtaöğretim Öğrencilerinde Affetme Esnekliği Ölçeği: Geçerlik ve güvenirlik çalışması

The aim of the study is to develop a scale which determines forgiveness flexibility level of secondary education students and to test reliability and validity of the scale. The study was actualized with 651 secondary education students. As result of exploratory factor analysis, which was used to test structure validity of the scale, a structure which explains 45.5% variance of total scale was attained. According to results of exploratory factor analysis, total 14 items collected at three factors. Factors were identified as recognition of forgiveness, internalization of forgiveness and practice of genuine forgiveness. When scale’s reliability study was made by split-half reliability method, correlation found .71 (p