The Turkish version of the Social Vulnerability Scale: The study of validity and reliability

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See, stats, and : https : / / www . researchgate. net / publication / 273900227 The Scale : The - Sosyal : Geçerlik ve ARTICLE DOI : 10 . 15345 / iojes . 2015 . 01 . 016 READS 264 1 : Hakan Dumlupinar 173 SEE Available : Hakan Retrieved : 02 The aim of this research is to adapt the Social Vulnerability Scale (Pinsker , Stone , Pachana , & Greenspan , 2006) to Turkish and to examine its psychometric properties . The research was conducted on 661 university students in Sakarya University and Agri Ibrahim Cecen University . Kaiser - Meyer - Olkin (KMO) measure of sampling adequacy of . 95 and a significant result on Bartlett ' s test of Sphericity χ2=500 , 498 (p< . 001 , df=105) . Results confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that 15 items yielded two factor as original form and that the two - dimensional model was well fit (χ²= 283 . 21 , df= 84 , RMSEA= . 075 , CFI= . 99 , IFI= . 99 , NFI= . 98 , RFI= . 97 , GFI= . 92 , SRMR= . 043) . Factor loadings ranged from . 41 to . 91 . Cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficient was found as . 94 for whole scale , . 87 for sub - dimension of gullibility , . 93 for sub - dimension of credulity . In the concurrent validity significant relationships (r= . 34) were found between the Social Vulnerability Scale and Psychological Vulnerability Scale . Test - retest reliability coefficient was . 80 for whole scale . Corrected item - total correlations ranged from . 38 to . 87 . Overall results demonstrated that Social Vulnerability Scale can be named as a valid and reliable instrument that could be used in the field of psychology and education .