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Cognitive appraisals, coping and psychological problems among Boğaziçi University english preparatory students
(Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.) Özkök Yılmaz, Ezgi.; Albayrak-Kaymak, Deniz.
The aim of the current study was to explore the relationships among daily hassles, life events, cognitive appraisals, ways of coping, and psychological problems of Boğaziçi University English preparatory students. The dynamic interplay between study variables was examined in line with the Lazarus and Folkman’s Transactional Theory of Stress. The sample was composed of 270 students (146 female, 124 male), and the data was collected by the Daily Hassles Scale, the Life Events Scale, the Stress Appraisal Measure, the Ways of Coping Questionnaire, and the BÜREM (Boğaziçi University Guidance and Psychological Counseling Center) Intake Form. The analyses partially supported the mediating role of coping on the relationship between cognitive appraisals and psychological problems. Regardless of having available resources to deal with the stressors, Planful Problem Solving predicted fewer psychological problems. The partial mediating roles of Planful Problem Solving and Accept Responsibility were supported. Moreover, the moderating effects of cognitive appraisals and ways of coping were supported. Daily Hassles more strongly predicted psychological problems for high levels of Threat appraisal than lower levels. For low levels of Control appraisal, Life Events more strongly predicted psychological problems. Daily Hassles more strongly predicted psychological problems for high levels of Accept Responsibility than low levels.
Early parental loss :|young adults' attachment patterns, mourning, and dysfunctional romantic relationship beliefs
(Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.) Varol, Ali.; Albayrak-Kaymak, Deniz.
This thesis aimed to examine attachment patterns, dysfunctional romantic relationship beliefs and mourning reactions of young adults who experienced parental loss. Adult attachment assessment included secure, preoccupied, dismissing, and fearful attachment patterns. Assessment of mourning reactions included behavioral, physical, affective and cognitive types. Dysfunctional romantic relationship beliefs were measured cumulatively. Participants were 423 students (64 had early parental loss) of a public university in Ġstanbul who joined the study through an online survey package that began with a demographic information form. Descriptive analyses showed that attachment patterns did not differ by loss status; significant positive relations existed between the dismissing attachment pattern scores and dysfunctional romantic relationship beliefs for participants with early parental loss, and preoccupied attachment pattern scores and dysfunctional romantic relationship beliefs for participants with no parent loss. The most common mourning reaction types were behavioral and physical, while emotional and cognitive types were rare. Young adults with dismissing attachment patterns had more dysfunctional romantic relationship beliefs if they had high levels of mourning. The study implied the importance of assessment of attachment patterns and mourning level in providing psychological support on romantic relationship beliefs of young adults with early parental loss.
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.
Experiences and needs of mothers of children with autistic disorder
(Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.) Köktürk, Akşın Ceylan.; Albayrak-Kaymak, Deniz.
The purpose of this study was to understand mothers of children with autism in terms of their experiences, needs, difficulties, stress levels and supports. Thirty mothers whose children were diagnosed as autistic were interviewed individually. The children were between three to eight years old. Sixty percent of children were in the mild to moderate form of autism where fourty percent were severe. Semi-structured interviews were implemented to mothers to get detailed information about themselves and their children. Additionally, the Questionnaire on Resources and Stress (QRS-FT) was used to see mothers‟ sources of stress and the Family Support Scale (FSS) was used to see mothers‟ support systems. Mothers also completed family information forms. The results of interview analyses showed that there was a time interval between mothers‟ first recognition of a problem in their children and their application to a professional. They were mostly sad and shocked when they heard the word autism and some mothers still feel the same. The responsibility of children was mostly on the mothers. Most mothers did not have any free time to relax. Being mothers of autistic children effected the social lives of mothers negatively. Children‟s communication and behavioral problems were among the top difficulties that mothers had to cope with. Mothers mostly stated needs concerning their children, like schools that would accept their children, more therapy sessions and other therapies. To be well enough to lead independent lives was the shared future expectation for their children by mothers. Lastly, mothers expected other people to be more understanding, empathic and aware of autism. Results from quantitative data also showed that mothers of children with autism perceived middle levels of stress and support. Mothers tended to have the highest mean scores from the pessimisim factor and the lowest mean scores from the parent and family problems factor of QRS-FT. Mothers perceived emotional support the most and caregiving support the least.
Health-behavior among 10th grade students in Istanbul within contexts of family, peer, and school
(Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.) Yıldırım, Özlem.; Albayrak-Kaymak, Deniz.
The World Health Organization regularly conducts a cross-national research “Health behavior in school-aged children” (HBSC), in various countries including Türkiye. The current study is a part of the general, nation-wide HBSC study in Türkiye. Its aim was to examine family, peer, and school contexts as psychosocial factors in relation to development of health-related behaviors and attitudes among the 10th grade students in stanbul. Research questions were directed to examine the relations of these psychosocial variables to perceived academic achievement, general life satisfaction, and mental health as broad outcomes and bullying as a risk behavior. The entire sample of the main study was selected to represent Türkiye, this study used its stanbul sample which consisted of 611 adolescents (288 females and 323 males) between ages 15-19, taken from 20 high schools. The required questions package and selected parts of optional questions package developed by the HBSC working team were used as the standard study questionnaire. Findings, in general, showed that adolescents’ positive evaluations of family, peer, and school factors were significantly associated with perceived academic achievement, general life satisfaction, and self-rated mental health. Parental monitoring, bonding, and family wealth were positively related to these broad outcome variables. School-related parental support was positively related to academic achievement. Neutrals (students neither bullying nor victimized) reported higher levels of parental monitoring and bonding. Yet, bully-victim groups did not differ in family wealth and parental disciplinary behaviors. Among peer variables, social competence and peer group approval by other teenagers did not correlate with broad outcome variables. Friendship quality positively correlated only with mental health. Yet, other sources of peer group approval (other students, parents, and teachers) correlated with all broad outcomes. No significant difference was present in social approval scores of bully-victim groups. Yet, there were significant group differences in social competence, friendship quality, academic achievement, general life satisfaction, and mental health scores in favor of neutrals? Last, school-related stress had negative and school-related satisfaction had positive correlations with broad outcomes. There were significant group differences in school stress but not in school satisfaction. In all variables except school stress, the neutral students got the highest scores while victims and bully-victims had the lowest scores. This research suggested that educational programs should target not only students themselves but also peers, teachers and parents. Peer guidance intervention programs, social skills training, empathy education seem important because bullying has negative effects especially on victims. Cooperative classroom atmosphere and consistent disciplinary methods should be used to deal with bullying and aggression among adolescents.
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.
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.
The development of the Turkish form of the Spielberger test anxiety inventory: |a study of transliteral equivalence and reliability
(Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Sosial Sciences, 1985., 1985.) Albayrak-Kaymak, Deniz.; Öner, Necla.
This thesis is based on a study about the Turkish adaptation of the Test Anxiety Inventory (TAl), developed by Spielberger in 1980. It was carried in two phases. First, the transliteral equivalence of the inventory was established; then, the reliability of the Turkish form of the inventory was studied. In the transliteral equivalence part of the study, the English and the Turkish forms of the inventory were tested on 164 Turkish bilingual university and highschool students. The analyses including analysis of variance. Product Moment, alpha, item-total, and item-remainder correlation techniques showed that there were no significant differences between the scores obtained from the English and the Turkish language forms of the TAl. This finding indicated that the English and the Turkish forms of the TAl are comparable psycho linguistically. In the reliability part of the study the stability and the internal consistency of the Turkish form of the TAl (TAI-T) were investigated. For this purpose, 1031 Turkish students from different levels of education (university, senior, and junior highschool) and SES in istanbul were tested. The stability of the scores of the TAI-T was found by test-retest correlations with varying time intervals. The obtained high test-retest correlations attested to the stability of the scale. The internal consistency of the TAI-T was established us~ng alpha, item-total, and item-remainder correlations. High alpha coefficients, and mediocre to high item-total and item-remainder correlations were obtained. These values indicate that the item consistency and the homogeneity of the Turkish form are very satisfactory in general. One particular finding, however, was that with younger (junior highschool) students some test items need further improvement for better internal consistency. It is recommended that this point is taken up in the following studies. Generally, the study demonstrated supporting data on the stability and the internal consistency of the TAI-T.
The impact of early childhood parental loss on children's self concept, peer relations, emotional and behavioral problems, and school achievement
(Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1995., 1995.) Özgül, Doğa.; Albayrak-Kaymak, Deniz.
This causal-comparative research examined the effects of early childhood loss on self-concept, peer popularity, externalizing and internalizing problems and school achievement of children. Early childhood loss was defined as the death of either parent before the child is six years old. Participants of this study were elementary school students from grades 3 to 5. They were 68 individuals (34 boys, 34 girls). Half of them had experienced early parental death while the remaining half came from intact families. Piers-Harris Children's Self Concept Scale, a sociometric rating, teacher ratings of externalizing and internalizing problems, standardized cumulative grade point averages and a structured interview were used in the study. In addition to effects ofloss, effects of gender were investigated. Thus, two-way analysis of variance were utilized in comparison ofthe groups. Results indicated that the loss group had lower self-concept, peer popularity, school achievement and higher externalizing behaviours than the intact group. Effects of loss were equally detrimental for both gender. Since the researcher found no study on direct effects of early loss on Turkish children, this study is an important step indicating the needs of bereaved children.
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.
Well-being institutionalized children: |a comparative study on parental deprivation
(Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2000., 2000.) Meşiç, Binnur Kurtlar.; Albayrak-Kaymak, Deniz.
This causal-comparative research examined the effects of early parental deprivation on emotional and behavioral problems, peer relations, self-concept, and school achievement of institutionalized children. Participants of this study were 71 (34 female, 37 male) children fiom institutions, and 71 (35 female, 36 male) children from intact families. They were elementary school students fiom grades third to fifth. As negative indicators of well-being emotional and behavioral problems were measured by externalizing, internalizing, and total problem scores of the Teacher's Report Form (TRF) and aggressiveldisruptive and sensitivelisolated scores of the Revised Class Play (RCP-T). Sociabilitylleadership scores of the RCP-T, selfconcept scores obtained fiom the Piers-Harris Children's Self-concept Scale (WIFAM), adaptive functioning ratings of the TRF and standardized cumulative grade point averages as well as academic performance ratings of the TRF were the positive indicators of well-being. A structured interview was developed to obtain demographic information about children and their families. Two-way analysis of variance was used to examine effects of parental deprivation and gender. Results indicated that children who live in institutions had lower school achievement and adaptive functioning, but higher self-concept, externalizing, and sensitivelisolated problems in comparison to their peers fiom intact families. There were no differences in sociabilitylleadership, aggressionfdisruption and internalizing problems between the two groups. Finally, there was no differential effect of parental deprivation due to gender. However, institutionalized females had higher levels of internalizing problems than institutionalized males. It seemed that the teacher (TRF and GPA) and self assessments (WIFAM) distinguished the institutionalized and intact groups more than the peer (RCP-T) assessments.

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