The Turkish version of the Social Vulnerability Scale: The study of validity and reliability

Article History: Received 16.08.2013 Received in revised form 24.02.2014 Accepted 26.11.2014 Available online Tarih girmek icin burayi tiklatin. The aim of this research is to adapt the Social Vulnerability Scale (Pinsker, Stone, Pachana, & Greenspan, 2006) to Turkish and to examine its psychometric properties. The research was conducted on 661 university students in Sakarya University and Agri Ibrahim Cecen University. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) measure of sampling adequacy of .95 and a significant result on Bartlett’s test of Sphericity χ2=500,498 (p<.001, df=105). Results confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that 15 items yielded two factor as original form and that the two-dimensional model was well fit (χ2= 283.21, df= 84, RMSEA= .075, CFI= .99, IFI= .99, NFI= .98, RFI= .97, GFI= .92, SRMR= .043). Factor loadings ranged from .41 to .91. Cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficient was found as .94 for whole scale, .87 for sub-dimension of gullibility, .93 for subdimension of credulity. In the concurrent validity significant relationships (r= .34) were found between the Social Vulnerability Scale and Psychological Vulnerability Scale. Test-retest reliability coefficient was .80 for whole scale. Corrected item-total correlations ranged from .38 to .87. Overall results demonstrated that Social Vulnerability Scale can be named as a valid and reliable instrument that could be used in the field of psychology and education. © 2015 IOJES. All rights reserved