The objectives of disaster education from teachers’ perspectives

This study aims to examine teachers’ judgments on the objectives of disaster education regarding basic three aspects; clarity, measurability and attainability. A 3-point Likert-type scale was developed, and completed by 142 teachers who participated in several in-service trainings about disaster education. Descriptive statistics were carried out to analyze the data. Results of this study revealed that there was no single objective that teachers perceived as clear, measurable and attainable at one hundred percent. So, there is an urgent need to do a comprehensive list of learning objectives in a way that they are perceived clearer, more measureable and attainable for the purpose of achieving a well-qualified disaster education including all domains of disaster education, namely cognitive, affective and psychomotor

The Reliability and Validity of the Lifespan Sibling Relationship Scale in a Turkish Emerging Adult Sample

The present study examines the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Lifespan Sibling Relationship Scale (LSRS; Riggio, 2000). A total of 578 (336 female, 242 male) Turkish emerging adults participated in this study. A Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was used to test construct validity for the original six-factor model of the scale with 48 items. Results of the CFA indicated a good model fit. Furthermore, the second-order CFA result showed that the scale can be scored for both the subdimensions and the test as a whole. Multi-group CFA result revealed that the measured construct is invariant across the genders. The results suggested that the Turkish version of the LSRS had adequate internal consistency and construct validity, indicating that it can be reliably used to measure attitudes toward sibling relationship in emerging adulthood among a Turkish population

Misuse of ICTs among Turkish children and youth: A study on newspaper reports

This study investigated the misuse of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) among children and youth. The data source was newspaper reports obtained from three Turkish daily newspapers, between January 2006 and December 2012. In that seven years period, a total of 66 ICT misuse incidents were reported in the selected newspapers. Document analysis was performed on the newspaper reports. Themes and codes were entered as variables to manage the data quantitatively. Results revealed that ICT misuse was most commonly conducted through cell phones, social networking sites, instant messaging and web pages. Young people’s involvement of ICT misuse had three forms; from young perpetrator/s to the young victim/s, from young perpetrator/s to adult victim/s and from adult perpetrator/s to young victim/s. ICTs were commonly misused for sexual abuse, insulting or taking revenge. While perpetrators were mostly males whose ages ranged between 14 and 52, a great majority of ICT misuse victims were females, with an age range from 8 to 46. Negative psychological and physiological impacts were reported by the victims

Examining Fears of Turkish Children and Adolescents with Regard to Age, Gender and Socioeconomic Status

The aim of this study is to examine the nature and severity of children and adolescents fears with regard to age, gender and socioeconomic status in Turkey. 1315 children and adolescents (642 females and 673 males) between the ages of 8 and 18 from low and middle socioeconomic status were administered Turkish version of Fear Survey Schedule for Children (Serim-Yildiz & Erdur-Baker, in press). Female children at age 8 coming from low socioeconomic status reported the highest fear scores for all fear factors, while the lowest fear scores were reported by male adolescents coming from different socioeconomic status. (c) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd

Üniversite Öğrencilerinin Geçmiş Travmatik Yaşantıları Ve Şimdiki Psikolojik Belirtileri.

Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı üniversitemiz öğrencileri arasında genel bir tarama yaparak a) ne tür ailelerden, ne gibi travmatik yaşantılarla geldiklerini b) ve bu yaşantıların şu anki psikolojik sağlıklarına olan ilişkisini incelemektir. Bu çalışmadan elde edilecek bulguların daha sonra gerçekleştirilecek önleme ve iyileştirme çalışmalarına ışık tutacağı düşünülmektedir. Araştırmanın kapsamı: Örneklem: Araştırmanın örneklemini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'nde farklı sınıf ve bölümlerde eğitimlerine devam eden en az 400 öğrenci oluşturacaktır. Örneklem, cinsiyet ve sınıf düzeyi gibi değişkenleri eşit biçimde temsil etmesi için, tabakalı örnekleme (stratified sampling) yöntemi ile seçilecektir. Veri toplama araçları: Bu çalışmada; - Yaş, cinsiyet, sınıf düzeyi gibi değişkenleri ölçen bir demografik filgi formu kullanılacaktır. - Ailedeki travma geçmişini ölçen, çeşitli travmatik olay örneklerini kapsayan, kısa tarama maddeleri içeren Aile Travmatik Geçmiş Anketi'nin geliştirilmesi ve çalışma kapsamında kullanılması hedeflenmektedir. - Katılımcıların bizzat yaşadığı ya da tanık olduğu travmatik olayları belirleyecek kısa tarama maddeleri içeren Travmatik Yaşantı Tarama Ölçeği'nin geliştirilmesi hedeflenmektedir. - Katılımcıların yaşadığı stres semptomlarını ve bu semptomların sıklığını ölçmeye yönelik Derogatis (1992) tarafından geliştirilen ve Şahin ve Durak (1994) tarafından Tükçe uyarlaması yapılan Kısa Semptom Envanteri (KSE) kullanılacaktır

8-13 Yaş Çocuklarının Televizyon Haberleriyle İlişkili Korkuları.

Bu çalışmada şu sorulara yanıt aranacaktır; 1) Çocukların haber içerikleriyle ilişkili korku düzeyleri nedir? 2) Ne tür haberlerin çocukların korkuları üzerinde etkisi vardır? 3) Haberin hangi unsurları çocuklar için korkutucudur? 4) Annelerin çocuklarının haberlerle ilişkili korkularına dair düşünceleriyle, çocukların haberler karşısında duydukları korku arasında ilişki var mıdır? 5) Yaş, cinsiyet, anne ve çocukların TV haberlerine maruz kalma süreleri, çocukların gerçeklik algıları, annelerin TV haberleri karşısındaki reaksiyonları ve haberlere dair paylaşımları, çocukların korkularıyla ilişkili midir? 6) İzledikleri haberler karşısında çocuklar ne tür davranışsal problemler gösteririler

Cyberbullying and its correlation to traditional bullying, gender and frequent and risky usage of internet-mediated communication tools

This study examined the relationships between cyber and traditional bullying experiences regarding gender differences. Also, the contributions of frequent and risky usage of internet to cyberbullying experiences were examined. The participants were 276 adolescents (123 females, 151 males and 2 unknown) ranging in age from 14 to 18 years. The results revealed that 32 percent of the students were victims of both cyber and traditional bullying, while 26 percent of the students bullied others in both cyber and physical environments. Compared to female students, male students were more likely to be bullies and victims in both physical and cyber-environments. The multivariate statistical analysis indicated that cyber and traditional bullying were related for male students but not for female students. Moreover, the multiple regression analysis revealed that both frequent and risky usage of internet account for a significant variance of cyberbullying but their contributions differ based on genders