Psychological Sense of University Membership: an Adaptation Study of the Pssm Scale for Turkish University Students

dc.authorid Alkan, Nese/0000-0002-5615-3183
dc.authorscopusid 56921876600
dc.authorwosid Alkan, Neşe/AAD-6382-2019
dc.authorwosid alkan, neşe/HTO-9171-2023
dc.contributor.author Alkan, Nese
dc.contributor.other Department of Psychology
dc.date.accessioned 2024-07-05T14:29:29Z
dc.date.available 2024-07-05T14:29:29Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.department Atılım University en_US
dc.department-temp [Alkan, Nese] Atilim Univ, Dept Psychol, TR-06836 Ankara, Turkey en_US
dc.description Alkan, Nese/0000-0002-5615-3183 en_US
dc.description.abstract The Psychological Sense of School Membership Scale (PSSM) is a widely used instrument to assess the sense of belonging to a school among adolescents. Despite its widespread use in middle and high school students, to date no particular adaptation study has been conducted for its use among university students. For this reason, the present study conducted an adaptation of the PSSM scale for these students. Five hundred and nine students at a Turkish university voluntarily participated in the study, and the PSSM Scale's factor structure was examined by exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, identifying three factors representing the students' sense of university membership with acceptable internal consistencies: acceptance by faculty members (.70), belonging (.75), and acceptance by students (.76). The internal consistency of the 18-item scale was calculated as .84. As hypothesized, the convergent and discriminant validity of the scale was also tested. The self-report sense of belonging and degree of satisfaction with the university were positively correlated with the three dimensions of the scale. Also, the scores regarding the students' intention to drop out of university along with loneliness were negatively correlated with all the dimension of the PSSM scale. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 27
dc.identifier.doi 10.1080/00223980.2015.1087373
dc.identifier.endpage 449 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0022-3980
dc.identifier.issn 1940-1019
dc.identifier.issue 4 en_US
dc.identifier.pmid 26398445
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-84945208340
dc.identifier.startpage 431 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2015.1087373
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/526
dc.identifier.volume 150 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000374555100003
dc.identifier.wosquality Q2
dc.institutionauthor Alkan, Neşe
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 19
dc.subject acceptance en_US
dc.subject PSSM en_US
dc.subject school membership en_US
dc.subject sense of belonging en_US
dc.subject university drop-out en_US
dc.subject university students en_US
dc.title Psychological Sense of University Membership: an Adaptation Study of the Pssm Scale for Turkish University Students en_US
dc.type Article en_US
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