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Item Expanding a counseling intake form and examining psychosocial problems of university students(Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.) Cihan, Akın.; Albayrak-Kaymak, Deniz.This survey study attempted to determine the psychosocial problems of university students while updating an existing university counseling intake form. The updated form was expanded by adding some problem items and questions on student characteristics and prepared to be filled as an electronic form. The accessible population was students of a public university in İstanbul who were around 18-25 ages. The link to the survey form was shared to via e-mails and social media groups. The data were collected anonymously and analyzed cumulatively. Participants were 741 students, about two thirds being female. The problem areas that emerged as eight factors were career/future concerns, problems with affect, academic problems, relational issues, problems with culture, health concerns, addiction, and traumatic experiences, in order of prevalence. Females reported more problems in career/future, affect, culture, and health, while males reported more problems in addiction. English Preparatory students had less concerns about their career/future than undergraduate and graduate students. Involvement in extracurricular activities seemed to be protective factor for students’ future/career, academic problems, and relational issues. Students who were interested to live abroad reported more problems with culture and addiction. Students with history of receiving psychological help, and suicidal thoughts and attempts reported more problems in most areas. The practical implication of the study was that university students had serious career/future, academic and counseling needs that await being addressed by university administrations and policy makers.Item Masculinity concepts in relation to attitudes towards physical violence against women : a counseling perspective(Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2023., 2023) Çinar, Mehmet.; Albayrak-Kaymak, Deniz.In patriarchal societies, heterosexual men are considered superior to women and nonbinary individuals who are suppressed or marginalized. This heteronormativity structure pressures men to struggle toward establishing and maintaining dominance and puts manhood into a precarious position, needing continuous protection against perceived threats. If men perceive that their masculinity is threatened, they may resort to violence to reestablish their status. This thesis focused on how masculinity concepts related to attitudes towards violence against women as perceived by males as well as females. The concepts of masculinity included masculinity types, masculinity ideology and perceived threat to manhood. University students from three major metropolises, İstanbul, Ankara and İzmir, volunteered to participate through responding to the instruments in the Google Form. Among 405 students, 283 identified themselves as female and 122 as male. Descriptive and relational analyses revealed that both males and females with hegemonic masculinity type had more affirmative attitudes towards physical violence than to those with nonhegemonic masculinity type. Sex differences existed in masculinity ideology, perceived threat to masculinity, and attitudes towards physical violence. Except for Femininity Avoidance, males adopted a more traditional position in Head of Family, Emotional Restriction, and Dominance dimensions of masculinity ideology than females. Males perceived more threat in dimensions of Breadwinner and Protector Roles and had more favorable attitudes towards physical violence. Biological sex, masculinity ideology and perceived threat to manhood predicted violence. From a counseling perspective, preventing gender discrimination and flexing strict gender roles seem to be the first steps to achieve nonviolence. NOTE Keywords: Masculinity type, masculinity ideology, threat to manhood, physical violence against women, counseling perspective.Item Maternal ambivalence : interviewing mothers(Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2023., 2023) Tuna, Ayça.; Albayrak-Kaymak, Deniz.The present study was conducted to give voice to maternal ambivalence experiences of mothers. It aimed to uncover how mothers experience, express, and manage their maternal ambivalence. Also, it addressed the factors in mothers’ lives that make their maternal ambivalence experiences more or less difficult. Participants were 10 first time mothers with a preschool aged child who was enrolled in a private preschool at the time. Within the framework of qualitative design, semi- structured interviews were conducted with each mother. Thematic analysis revealed that mothers had both positive and negative feelings towards their children and motherhood roles. Negative feelings were because of the child’s undesired behaviors, rapid mood swings, their own exhaustion, and times of crisis. These negative feelings included regret towards their motherhood role that put restrictions on their freedom and led to difficulties. After expressing their negative feelings, however, mothers felt regret, shame, and guilt. Mothers shared their maternal ambivalence experiences with nonjudgmental people including friends, colleagues, and family members, and utilized several strategies in order to manage their maternal ambivalence experiences. Immediate and extended family members as well as others in the social circle put pressure on mothers to fit into conventional motherhood roles despite the fact that they provided limited support. Findings indicated mothers’ need to share their ambivalent feelings and the importance of social support mechanisms.Item Values of counseling students: a preliminary examination(Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.) Yavuz, Pınar.; Albayrak-Kaymak, Deniz.This study was conducted on the longitudinal data collected from Boğaziçi University guidance and psychological counseling students from freshman to senior year. Its aim was to determine if there was a change in values of students from freshman to senior year. A total of 164 students (113 females and 51 males) participated in this descriptive longitudinal study. Personal, social and counseling values, attitudes toward counseling service, career plans in counseling, favorable and unfavorable client groups; race, ethnic groups or nations students think they would have difficulty to work with, counseling approaches adopted and value orientations of students were investigated. To answer these questions, some questions were selected from the Values Instrument which was developed by Albayrak – Kaymak. There were structured and open- ended questions which were conceptually grouped. Frequencies, percentages and McNemar test were used to analyze the data. Findings, in general, showed that counseling education had an impact on variables studied. While the importance of personal values like reliability, justice, loyalty, sincerity and responsibility increased; the importance of love, rationalism and selfhood decreased. In social values; importance of justice and social welfare increased but of love and reliability decreased. Positive attitudes of students toward getting counseling help were quite high in both grade levels. Number of students who would like to work as a psychological counselor decreased from freshman to senior year. While the preference to work with a squatter settler and a family with a child with disability increased, a suicidal introvert decreased. As unfavorable clients, avoidance of convicted rapist, incestuous parent, pander increased; mentally retarded, person with AIDS, involuntary counselee and terminally ill decreased. The ratio of students who thought that they would not have difficulty while working with ethnically different groups increased. Value orientations changed in the favor of harmony, present and becoming. The counseling approach senior students found closest to them was Humanistic and the counseling value they found most important was reliability. The results are indicative of the importance of inclusion of cultural issues and value awareness in counselor training.