Akbaş Uslu, Gülçin
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Doktor Öğretim Üyesi
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gulcin.akbasuslu@atilim.edu.tr
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Book Part Citation Count: 0Perceptions of discrimination and social contact among Alevis and Sunnis in Turkey: Findings from two field studies(Taylor and Francis, 2022) Akbaş Uslu, Gülçin; Ray-Yol,E.; Sümer,N.; Department of Psychology[No abstract available]Article Citation Count: 1Namus Sistemini Meşrulaştırma Ölçeği’nin Geliştirilmesi(2020) Akbaş Uslu, Gülçin; Uğurlu, Nuray Sakallı; Batur, Suzan Ceylan; Doğulu, Canay; Department of PsychologyBu 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.Article Citation Count: 62Why Do Women Endorse Honor Beliefs? Ambivalent Sexism and Religiosity as Predictors(Springer/plenum Publishers, 2016) Metin Orta, İrem; Sakalli-Ugurlu, Nuray; Akbaş Uslu, Gülçin; Orta, Irem Metin; Ceylan, Suzan; Department of PsychologyCultures of honor, such as Turkey, prioritize defending individual and family reputations, but in gender-specific ways (Nisbett and Cohen 1996). Men maintain honor via reputations for toughness, aggression, control over women, and avenging insults. Women maintain honor through obedience to men, sexual modesty, and religious piety. Honor beliefs support women's subordination, justifying violence against them (Sev'er and Yurdakul, Violence against Women, 7, 964-998, 2001) and therefore should be challenged. Understanding honor beliefs' ideological correlates may inform such efforts. We hypothesized that benevolent sexism, a subjectively favorable system-justifying ideology, would more strongly, positively predict Turkish women's (versus men's) honor beliefs; whereas hostile sexism, which is openly antagonistic toward women, would more strongly, positively predict Turkish men's (versus women's) honor beliefs. Additionally, due to justifications for gender inequality embedded in Islamic religious teachings, we expected Islamic religiosity to positively predict honor beliefs for both genders. A convenience sample of Turkish undergraduates (313 women and 122 men) in Ankara completed the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, Religious Orientation Scale, and Honor Endorsement Index. Regression analyses revealed that benevolent (but not hostile) sexism positively predicted women's honor beliefs, whereas hostile (but not benevolent) sexism positively predicted men's honor beliefs. Islamic religiosity positively predicted honor beliefs for both genders, but (unexpectedly) did so more strongly for men than women. We suggest that combating benevolent sexism and promoting feminist interpretations of Islamic religiosity may help to empower Turkish women to challenge honor beliefs.Article Citation Count: 6Validation and correlates of the vicarious embarrassment scale(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2014) Akbaş Uslu, Gülçin; Akbas, Gulcin; Helvaci, Elif; Metin, Irem; Department of PsychologyVicarious 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.Article Citation Count: 4Young Adults' Perceptions of Social Clock and Adulthood Roles in the Turkish Population(Springer/plenum Publishers, 2019) Akbaş Uslu, Gülçin; Akbas, Gulcin; Department of PsychologyThe 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.Article Citation Count: 0The Role of Honor Concerns in Disclosing (vs. Hiding) COVID-19 Diagnosis: Insights from Turkiye(Springer/plenum Publishers, 2023) Akbaş Uslu, Gülçin; Dogulu, Canay; Akbas, Gulcin; Yet, Barbaros; Uskul, Ayse K. K.; Department of PsychologyMembers 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.Article Citation Count: 0Liking Low-Status? Contextual and Individual Differences in Attributional Biases of Low-Status Outgroup Members(Psychopen, 2019) Akbaş Uslu, Gülçin; Akbas, Gulcin; Renstrom, Emma A.; Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza; Vazquez, Alexandra; Department of PsychologyPrevious 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).Book Part Citation Count: 0Unveiling the portrayal of intimate partner violence against women in the media: Insights from an honor culture(IGI Global, 2023) Akbaş Uslu, Gülçin; Ceylan-Batur,S.; Department of PsychologyIntimate 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.Article Citation Count: 1Are Gender-Neutral Pronouns Really Neutral? Testing a Male Bias in the Grammatical Genderless Languages Turkish and Finnish(Sage Publications inc, 2023) Akbaş Uslu, Gülçin; Lindqvist, Anna; Akbas, Gulcin; Hekanaho, Laura; Senden, Marie Gustafsson; Department of PsychologyLanguages 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.
