Love of Life in Turkish Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Mankind Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.46469/mq.2022.62.3.8

Y. Turan, M. Dadfar, A. Abdel-Khalek, Özkan Çıkrıkçı

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Abstract

The aims of the present study were (a) to introduce the Turkish version of the Love of Life Scale (LLS), (b) to develop a short form of the LLS, (c) to assess the psychometric properties and explore the factor structure of this Turkish version of the LLS, (d) to examine gender differences in the LLS, and (e) to provide a data point for the level of love of life during the pandemic in Turkey, as a point of reference for future studies after the end of the pandemic. A cross-sectional convenience sample of 381 college students responded to the Turkish version of the LLS. Cronbach's a was .95 for the long form LLS. Both Cronbach alpha and McDonald Omega values were .92 for the short form of LLS. Principal components analysis extracted one component labeled Love of Life for both forms. The short version of LLS contained four items, with a first principal component accounting for 80.15% of total variance. The long form of LLS correlated very highly with its short form. The sex difference for the long and short forms LLS total scores was not statistically significant. Age differences were found for the long form LLS total scores but not for the short form. The present results demonstrate the applicability of the Turkish version of the LLS to Turkish college students. © 2022 Ulster Institute for Social Research. All rights reserved.

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2019冠状病毒病大流行期间土耳其学生对生活的热爱

本研究的目的是(a)介绍土耳其版的爱情生活的规模(前),(b)开发前的短形式,(c)来评估心理属性和探索这个土耳其的因子结构版本的那样,(d)检查在接拍的性别差异,以及(e)提供一个数据点的水平对生命的爱在大流行期间在土耳其,是未来研究的参考点后的大流行。一个由381名大学生组成的横向方便样本回应了土耳其版的LLS。对于长格式LLS, Cronbach的a值是0.95。短型LLS的Cronbach alpha和McDonald Omega值均为0.92。主成分分析为两种形式提取了一个标记为“热爱生活”的成分。短版LLS包含4个项目，第一主成分占总方差的80.15%。LLS的长形式与其短形式的相关性非常高。长、短形式LLS总分的性别差异无统计学意义。长形式的LLS总分存在年龄差异，但短形式的LLS总分没有年龄差异。本研究结果证明了土耳其语版的语言行为量表对土耳其大学生的适用性。©2022阿尔斯特社会研究所。版权所有。

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Mankind Quarterly Social Sciences-Anthropology

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期刊介绍： The Mankind Quarterly was founded as a quarterly journal of anthropology, in the broadest sense of "the science of man," in 1961. This was a time when the "study of man" had already diversified into physical anthropology, ethnography, quantitative cross-cultural research, archaeology and other subspecialties. Psychological and linguistic approaches were explored but the genetic study of population structure and population history was still in its infancy.