Akbaş Uslu, Gülçin

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Doktor Öğretim Üyesi
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gulcin.akbasuslu@atilim.edu.tr
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Department of Psychology
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HGT-9462-2022

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PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS16
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Sex Roles2
Cyberfeminism and Gender Violence in Social Media1
Examining Complex Intergroup Relations: Through the Lens of Turkey1
İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi1
Journal of Adult Development1
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    The Role of Honor Concerns in Disclosing (vs. Hiding) COVID-19 Diagnosis: Insights from Turkiye
    (Springer/plenum Publishers, 2023) Ceylan-Batur, Suzan; Dogulu, Canay; Akbas, Gulcin; Yet, Barbaros; Uskul, Ayse K. K.
    Members of honor cultures value engaging in moral behaviors and managing their social image to maintain their honor. These two goals reflect reputation and integrity concerns, which also have bearing on gender roles. In the current study, we examined a) evaluations of women and men described as diagnosed with COVID-19 and as either hiding or disclosing their diagnosis, b) the moderating role of honor concerns (reputation and integrity) and the gender of the infected person in these evaluations, and c) the relationship between honor concerns and individuals' own disclosure preferences among participants living in Turkiye, a country that exemplifies an honor culture. Findings revealed that participants with stronger reputation concerns evaluated a woman's hiding behavior more favorably than that of a man's. Moreover, higher integrity concerns were associated with lower levels of participants' own preference to hide a diagnosis for both men and women, whereas reputation concerns were positively associated with a preference for hiding a diagnosis among men only. Furthermore, a content analysis of participants' open-ended explanations of their views on women's and men's motivation to hide a diagnosis revealed further evidence for the gendered nature of reputation concerns. Our findings point to the importance of prioritizing integrity concerns (and downplaying reputation concerns) in public health campaigns in honor cultures.
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    Unveiling the Portrayal of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the Media: Insights From an Honor Culture
    (IGI Global, 2023) Akbaş,G.; Ceylan-Batur,S.
    Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a pervasive global issue. The media plays a significant role in shaping society's perceptions and understanding of IPV. This study focuses on the representation of femicide in Turkish newspapers, with a specific focus on the context of Turkey as an honor culture characterized by a distinct emphasis on female sexual purity and male dominance. Honor cultures often justify violence against women in the name of preserving honor. This research aims to investigate how newspapers depict honor-based IPV through quantitative analysis, content analysis, discourse analysis, and frame analysis of femicide cases. The findings reveal that newspapers frame IPV within an honor culture by victim-blaming and justifying men's violent behavior. Additionally, news coverage often portrays honor-based IPV as isolated incidents, failing to recognize its reflection of the broader honor culture. These portrayals inadvertently perpetuate and legitimize IPV, discouraging women from seeking assistance and support. © 2023, IGI Global. All rights reserved.
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    Benlik Karmaşıklığı ve İyilik Hali: Kısa Bir Değerlendirme
    (2023) Uslu, Gülçin Akbaş; Akbas, Gulcin
    Benlik karmaşıklığı, benliğin birbiriyle örtüşmeyen yönleri olarak tanımlanır. Linville'in öncü araştırması, benlik karmaşıklığının iyilik halindeki rolüne dikkat çekmiştir. Temel öneri, benlik karmaşıklığının strese karşı bir tampon vazifesi görebileceğidir; benliğin bir yönü tehdit edildiğinde, benliğin zarar görmemiş diğer yönleri bireyin öz benliğini koruyacaktır. Linville'in önermelerini takiben, birçok araştırmacı, benlik karmaşıklığının, depresyon ve duygusal sıkıntı gibi çeşitli iyilik hali çıktıları üzerindeki rolünü test etmiştir. Bu çalışmaların bulguları benlik karmaşıklığının işlevleri açısından karışıktır. Benlik karmaşıklığının olumlu sonuçları olduğunu destekleyen bulgular olsa da bazı araştırmalar benlik karmaşıklığının iyilik hali üzerindeki olumsuz ve külfetli etkisini ortaya koymuştur. Farklı araştırmalar arasındaki tutarsızlık, ölçüm problemleri ve araştırmacıların benlik karmaşıklığını nasıl ele aldığı ile ilgili olabilir. Bu yazı, benlik karmaşıklığıyla ilgili temel bulgularını ele almakta ve benlik karmaşıklığının tampon etkisinin gösterdiği koşulları tartışmaktadır.
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    Anti-Immigration Conspiracy Beliefs Are Associated With Endorsement of Conventional and Violent Actions Opposing Immigration and Attitudes Towards Democracy Across 21 Countries
    (SpringerNature, 2025) Thomas, Emma F.; Stothard, Christina; Besta, Tomasz; Akbas, Gulcin; Becker, Julia C.; Becker, Maja; van Zomeren, Martijn
    Despite widespread speculation that conspiracy beliefs foster anti-democratic outcomes, the empirical picture is inconsistent. To clarify this literature, we examine the relationships that conspiracy beliefs have with commitment to reactionary action and criticism of democracy, focusing on a global issue: immigration. We expected that people who believe that their government uses immigration to diversify the population against citizens' wishes (anti-migration conspiracy beliefs) would be more committed to conventional and violent action to oppose immigration, and more critical of democracy. However, societal-level factors - economic performance and democratic functioning - were expected to influence (strengthen, weaken) these links. As hypothesized, multi-level analyses (N = 4353) from 21 countries revealed that economic prosperity attenuated the positive link between anti-migration conspiracy beliefs and commitment to reactionary action. Paradoxically, more democratic societies evidenced stronger links between conspiracy beliefs and conventional (but not violent) action to oppose immigration. Thus, more democratic societies appear to invite conventional forms of action to oppose immigration which may, in turn, weaken democratic norms of inclusion. Results highlight the interplay of individual- and societal-level factors underlying illiberal movements.
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    Liking Low-Status? Contextual and Individual Differences in Attributional Biases of Low-Status Outgroup Members
    (Psychopen, 2019) Besta, Tomasz; Akbas, Gulcin; Renstrom, Emma A.; Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza; Vazquez, Alexandra
    Previous studies on biased intergroup perceptions of outgroups' irrationality mostly treated the target groups as opponents and rivals. In three studies, we extended this line of research and tested the hypothesis that individuals who challenge the existing social hierarchy exhibit more positive biases toward low-status outgroup members. We also hypothesized that when irrational thinking is framed as an important human trait, this bias is reduced among low social dominance orientation (SDO) individuals. In three studies (N = 169, N = 450, and N = 161), conducted in countries that vary in power distance levels (Poland, Spain, Sweden and Turkey), we examined under which conditions low-status outgroups are perceived as more rational than ingroup members. The results show that in a condition without irrationality framed as a human trait, psychology students (Study 1 and Study 2) and nonstudents low in group-based dominance orientation (Study 3) perceive outgroup members as less irrational than ingroup members. However, when participants were reminded that irrationality is a human trait, the perceived differences between in- and outgroup members were reduced. This effect was observed in all four countries (Study 1 and Study 2) and held when variables related to the tendency to behave in a socially desirable way were controlled for (Study 3).
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    Are Gender-Neutral Pronouns Really Neutral? Testing a Male Bias in the Grammatical Genderless Languages Turkish and Finnish
    (Sage Publications inc, 2023) Renstrom, Emma A.; Lindqvist, Anna; Akbas, Gulcin; Hekanaho, Laura; Senden, Marie Gustafsson
    Languages differ in how grammatically salient gender is. We explored if grammatically gender-neutral pronouns in Finnish and Turkish, two grammatically genderless languages, are gender neutral or male biased, thereby activating male, rather than female, exemplars. We also tested whether differences in national level gender equality influence the male bias. Results indicated a male bias in both languages, whereas national level gender equality had no influence. Implications for gender-fair language reforms in grammatically genderless languages are discussed.
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    Young Adults' Perceptions of Social Clock and Adulthood Roles in the Turkish Population
    (Springer/plenum Publishers, 2019) Pekel-Uludagli, Nilay; Akbas, Gulcin
    The aim of this study was to examine how adulthood roles (marriage and parenthood) and the perceived timing of the achievement of these roles (early, on-time, late) were related to well-being (depression and life satisfaction) and need satisfaction (autonomy, competence, and relatedness) in young adults. The sample consisted of 433 female and 244 male (N = 685) participants. Results revealed that individuals who perceived themselves as on-time for marriage reported higher levels of well-being and need satisfaction compared with individuals who perceived themselves as early or late. In addition, individuals who perceived themselves as having children on-time reported lower levels of depression and higher levels of need satisfaction compared with individuals who perceived themselves as early. For female participants, employed women have higher relatedness than non-employed women. In addition, married participants have more relatedness and life-satisfaction, and less depression than unmarried participants. The results suggest that fulfilling adulthood roles and the perceived timing of these roles affects well-being and need satisfaction.
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    Validation and Correlates of the Vicarious Embarrassment Scale
    (Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2014) Uysal, Ahmet; Akbas, Gulcin; Helvaci, Elif; Metin, Irem
    Vicarious embarrassment can be defined as embarrassment resulting from witnessing embarrassing behaviors of strangers. We developed a scale to measure individual differences in the tendency to experience vicarious embarrassment, and examined its association with related constructs. In Study 1, we found that vicarious embarrassment is associated positively with susceptibility to embarrassment, empathy, perspective-taking, and fear of negative evaluation, while it is associated negatively with self-esteem. In Study 2, we found that vicarious embarrassment is uniquely associated with embarrassment in response to a poor performance of a stranger on a TV show, independent of susceptibility to embarrassment, empathy, perspective-taking, and fear of negative evaluation. Although the limited literature on this topic focused on the role of empathy in this type of embarrassment, these findings suggest that there is more to vicarious embarrassment than empathy or perspective-taking. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Evlilik İle Çocuk Sahibi Olmaya İlişkin Sosyal Saat Algısı ve Evlilik Doyumu
    (2019) Pekel, Nilay Uludağlı; Akbaş, Gülçin
    Günümüz toplumlarında bireylerin evlenme ve çocuk sahibi olma yaşlarının giderek arttığıgörülmektedir. İlgili yazında ise bireylerin evlenme ve çocuk sahibi olma zamanlamalarındakifarklılıkların, evlilik yaşantılarının kalitesiyle ilişkili olduğu ortaya konmuştur. Bu kapsamdayapılan bu çalışmanın amacı, günümüz Türkiye’sindeki genç yetişkinlerin, evlenme ve ilk kezçocuk sahibi olmalarındaki zamanlamalarının, evlilik doyumlarıyla ilişkisini incelemektir.Çalışmaya 24-41 yaşları arasında 445 evli birey katılmıştır. Katılımcılar, kendi evlenme veçocuk sahibi olma yaşları ile ideal gördükleri evlenme ve çocuk sahibi olma yaşları temelinde;erken, zamanında ve geç olarak gruplandırılarak karşılaştırılmıştır. Eğitim ve gelirin olası etkisikontrol edilerek yapılan kovaryans analizlerinde evlenme açısından sosyal saatini zamanındaalgılayan bireylerin, erken ve geç algılayan bireylere göre daha yüksek evlilik doyumuna sahipoldukları bulunmuştur. Çocuk sahibi olma açısından sosyal saat grupları, eğitim ve gelirinolası etkisi kontrol edilerek karşılaştırıldığında, erken gruptaki bireylerin, zamanında ve geçgruptaki bireylere göre daha düşük evlilik doyumuna sahip oldukları görülmüştür. Araştırmabulguları evlenme ve çocuk sahibi olmadaki zamanlamanın evlilik doyumu ile ilişkili olduğunugöstermiştir.
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    Namus Sistemini Meşrulaştırma Ölçeği’nin Geliştirilmesi
    (2020) Akbaş, Gülçin; Uğurlu, Nuray Sakallı; Batur, Suzan Ceylan; Doğulu, Canay; Sakallı, Nuray; Ceylan-batur, Suzan
    Bu çalışmanın amacı, sistemi meşrulaştırmakuramı (Jost ve Banaji, 1994) temelinde, bireylerin toplumdaki namus düzenini meşrulaştırma eğilimlerini değerlendiren namus sistemini meşrulaştırma (NSM) ölçeğini geliştirmektir. Bu amaçla; namusla ilgili alanyazın, raporlar ve haberlerdeki söylemlerden yola çıkılarak 28 maddelik bir havuz oluşturulmuştur. Çalışmanın örneklemi, 275’i kadın 158’si erkek olmak üzere toplam 433 (Ort.yaş= 31.77, S= 7.61)yetişkin katılımcıdan oluşmaktadır. Açımlayıcı ve doğrulayıcı faktör analizleri sonuçları, toplam varyansın%52.34’ünü açıklayan 10 maddelik tek faktörlü bir yapı ortaya koymuştur. Maddelerin aldıkları faktör yükleri .67 ve .79 arasında, madde-toplam korelasyonları ise .58 ve .72 arasında değişmektedir. Ayrıca, NSM ölçeğinin içtutarlık katsayısının .90 olduğu bulunmuştur. Ölçeğin namuslailgili diğer değişkenler (namusu onaylama, namus adına kadına uygulanan şiddete yönelik tutumlar) ve diğer sistemi meşrulaştırma ideolojileri (cinsiyet sistemini meşrulaştırma, korumacı ve düşmanca cinsiyetçilik) ile anlamlıilişkisi ölçeğin geçerli olduğuna işaret etmektedir. Elde edilen bulgular ışığında, NSM ölçeğinin ilgili alanyazında kullanılmak için geçerli ve güvenilir bir ölçüm aracı olduğu sonucuna varılmıştır.