Aras, Gökşen

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Job Title
Doktor Öğretim Üyesi
Email Address
goksen.aras@atilim.edu.tr
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Department of English Language and Literature
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NO POVERTY1
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ZERO HUNGER2
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GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING3
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QUALITY EDUCATION4
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GENDER EQUALITY5
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CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION6
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AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY7
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DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH8
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INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE9
INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
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REDUCED INEQUALITIES10
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SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES11
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RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION12
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PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS16
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Supervised MSc Theses

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Turkish Studies (Elektronik)3
ULUSLARARASI HAKEMLİ AKADEMİK VE BEŞERİ BİLİMLER DERGİSİ3
IIB International Refereed Academic Social Sciences Journal2
Iranian Journal of Public Health2
Turkish Studies - Language and Literature2
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  • Conference Object
    Cluttered Thoughts
    (Forum Literary Voice, 2024) Aras, Goksen
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  • Article
    The Effect of Endurance-Based Sports on Athlete Success and Psychological Well-Being
    (Campus Educa Sports Sl, 2025) Ozpinar, Saliha; Yucel, Ali Serdar; Korkmaz, Murat; Oztas, Dilek; Kuyucu, Mihalis Michael; Aras, Goksen; Yüce, Ali Serdar
    The aim of this study is to examine the effects of psychological resilience on sport success and mental health. The relationships between commitment, control and challenge, which are sub-dimensions of psychological resilience, and sport success and psychological wellbeing were evaluated and discussed in detail. Today, the problems arising due to the increasing competitive environment and stress factors have made it more important for athletes to be psychologically strong. Although the relationship between psychological resilience and sport success has been previously examined in the literature, studies evaluating the individual effects of the sub-dimensions of resilience in a large sample group are quite limited. This study aims to overcome this deficiency and make an up-to-date contribution to the subject. A total of 684 students (72 percent male, 28 percent female) studying at the Faculties of Sport Sciences of 16 universities in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Bursa and Antalya participated in the study. Participants completed the Resilience Scale and Mental Health Inventory, and their sporting achievements were evaluated by their coaches using the Sport Achievement Scale. Data were collected via Google Forms (R) and analysed using SPSS 22.0 software with correlation, regression and Granger causality tests. The findings revealed that all resilience sub-dimensions showed positive and significant relationships with sport achievement ( R-2=0.93) and psychological well-being (R-2=0.68). Especially control and challenge factors had the strongest effects. As a result of the research, commitment, control and challenge, which are the sub-dimensions of psychological resilience, significantly affect both success levels and psychological well-being of athletes. Therefore, resilience development programmes for athletes should focus on these areas.
  • Article
    The Representation of Magical Doors in Mohsin Hamid's exit West
    (Forum Literary Voice, 2024) Aras, Goksen
    Mohsin Hamid presents migration as one of the most debatable global themes in his Exit West (2017). The author fictionalises not only migrants' crises of dislocation in the contemporary world but also their escape to safety through magical means in his novel. Exit West mainly depicts the existential struggles and anxieties of the two migrants, Nadia and Saeed, and their toilsome experiences in their journey to the West after they leave their homeland. The two protagonists of the novel trespass physical borders and walls, like heavily guarded frontiers or oceans through magical doors to create themselves a safe space. It is clear from the very beginning of the novel that Nadia and Saeed try hard to survive in an unnamed South Asian country, which is fraught with political chaos, violence and bloodshed. Having been guided by a number of bribed dark agents, the couple flee their country by passing through some magical doors, towards a future marked by uncertainty and unpredictability. Their first Western destination is the Greek island of Mykonos where they settle in a refugee camp, their second destination is London, and the final stop is Marin, San Francisco. The objective of this paper is to explore the actual and symbolic function of magical doors as the main characters journey to the West to start a free and secure life.
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    Citation - WoS: 6
    Personality and Individual Differences: Literature in Psychology-Psychology in Literature
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2015) Aras, Goksen
    Literature, which intertwines within such fields as history, philosophy, sociology, psychology and so on, is a discipline wherein language is used as a medium of expression so as to interpret man, existence and culture. The objective of this paper is to discuss literature in terms of its interdisciplinary structure, psychology, in particular, considering man and existence, personality and individual differences which have always been studied by writers, philosophers, artists, psychologists and psychiatrists. Several complex notions, unfathomable personalities and ambiguous motives have been associated with characters in literary genres: For example the term Bovarism is explained by means of Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Similar examples in literary works could be multiplied. Man and existence have been fundamental themes in literature, which has existed even before psychology. Works of literature and art enable individuals to be aware of their personalities and individual differences and to question life and existence, the main data in the field of psychology as well. It is overtly seen that there is a very strong correlation between literature and psychology since both of them deal with human beings and their reactions, miseries, desires, and their individual and social concerns by means of different concepts, methods, and approaches. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
  • Article
    Citation - WoS: 2
    Perceived Health Outcomes of Recreation Scale: Measurement Invariance Over Gender
    (Iranian Scientific Society Medical Entomology, 2022) Kose, Elif; Yerlisu-Lapa, Tennur; Uzun, Nezaket Bilge; Kaas, Evren Tercan; Serdar, Emrah; Aras, Goksen
    Background: Research handling structural differences among groups presume that the measurement tool works similarly among the groups and the results of measurements provide similar psychometric properties. Therefore, the aim of the study is to provide evidence for measurement invariance of the construct validity Perceived Health Outcomes of Recreation Scale (PHORS).Methods: The research sample consisted of a total of 1984 adults who exercise, including 864 women and 1120 men during 2021-2022 in Antalya City, Turkey. The MI of the PHORS was tested by multigroup con-firmatory factor analyses, which test the invariance of the covariance structures within the scope of structural equation modelling. Invariance tests were gradually conducted for the implicit variables in the model, CFI (comparative fit index criteria) and AIC (Akaike information criterion) were inquired between structural invari-ance, where no restriction was applied on the analyses and the other invariance tests (metric invariance, scalar invariance and string invariance respectively) where more restraints are applied.Results: The study yielded evidence showing that the measurement model defined for the factor structure of the scale provided measurement invariance by gender. increment CFI values were <= 0.010 in all subscales for metric and scalar invariance.Conclusion: The items of PHORS represented the same psychological structure, different groups responded to the items in the same way, the constant values in regression equations generated for the items in regression equations were equal/invariable between the groups.
  • Article
    The American Dream: Cultural and Social Downfall in John Steinbeck's of Mice and Men
    (Literary Voice, 2022) Aras, Goksen; Takva, Serdar
    As known, throughout history, most societies have experienced hard times that have made life difficult to bear. Among these hard times are political, social and economic conditions which shape the ways human beings perceive the world and lead their lives. The Great Depression, that ravaged American society in the 1929s, is one of the most catastrophic economic events in the history of America and it is considered to be a calamity resulting in unemployed, desperate and even homeless people. John Steinbeck, being one of the foremost representatives of American writers, handles the devastating effects of the Great Depression and how it affected numerous people from different parts of the community. In this period, from women to the black, from the old to the disabled. most people wanted to lead a life based on humanly standards but what they expected turned into a frustration paving the way for the impossibility of the American dream and thus cultural and social downfall of such people no matter how hard they try to achieve their goals. Steinbeck's novel titled Of Mice and Men in this context is a touching representation of frustration, hopelessness, despair to have a place to live in, and a portrayal of unattainable happiness and the impossible American dream. This paper explores the futile efforts to realize the American dream and thus unhappiness and failure from Steinbeck's point of view and it presents the reflections of such a concept through the fictionalized characters in the novel.
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    Etches of Life
    (Forum Literary Voice, 2024) Aras, Goksen
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    Otherness and Displacement in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
    (Literary Voice, 2023) Aras, Goksen; Takva, Serdar
    English hegemonic colonial rule of the other parts of the world was based on unequal power relations and the domination of people from different cultures and ancestral backgrounds. Like the other colonized territories, the Caribbean was one of the countries whose social, political and cultural structure was dominated by England. During its rule in the Caribbean, Britain enslaved black people and forced them to work in the sugar cane plantations thus, created hostility between the Creoles and the black. More importantly, the colonizer othered the indigenous dwellers and the colonized people felt secure neither in their homelands nor in the colonizer's country which led to displacement. After the proclamation of independence, postcolonial writers from the former colonies tackle post-independence problems inherited by colonization in their work. Jean Rhys also handles controversial postcolonial concepts in her work. Her novel titled Wide Sargasso Sea is a notable narrative of the turbulent Caribbean life after the Emancipation. This paper in this sense explores Wide Sargasso Sea in terms of its representation of otherness and displacement in the context of postcolonial studies.