Fatma Sapmaz

Eskisehir Osmangazi University | ESOGU

The aim of this study is to examine the concept of divorce counseling and related approaches and present them as a review. Divorce counseling refers to the psychological counseling process conducted to meet the psychological needs of couples in the divorce process and to increase their adjustment. Although divorce is a general concept, it follows a...

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between value preferences and life goals, and find out to what extent values preferences predict life goals. The study consisted of 273 university students. A Schwartz Value Survey was conducted to determine the value preferences of the participants, and a Life Goals Scale was used to measure th...

The aim of the study is to explore the relationship between gratitude, forgiveness, humility and happiness and to determine the prediction levels of gratitude, forgiveness and humility on happiness. 443 university students (321 female, 110 male), studying at Sakarya University-Faculty of Education, participated in the study. 12 of the students did...

The current study aims to adapt the Short Depression-Happiness Scale (SDHS) to Turkish culture and to investigate the psychometric characteristics of this scale. There were 380 respondents (179 female/199 male) ranging in age from 16 to 78 years. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was used to explore construct validity of the SDHS and was correlate...

Problem statement Today, it is widely accepted that empathy is a multidimensional factor that facilitates human relations. The common idea that empathy comprises more than one component has created diversity in the assessment of the said factor; many researchers have developed empathy scales that include different dimensions. However, unidimensiona...

Özet İyimserliğin Mutluluk ve Yaşam Doyumuna Etkisinin İncelenmesi İyimserlik ve mutluluk pozitif psikolojinin iki temel kavramı olarak değerlendirilmektedir. Bu çalışmada iyimserlik, mutluluk ve yaşam doyumu arasındaki ilişkilerin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmanın katılımcılarını Sakarya Üniversitesinde öğrenim gören 206 (131 kadın/75 erkek)...

This examination aimed to examine relationships between happiness and psychological need satisfaction and investigated whether psychological need satisfaction significantly predicts happiness. Participants were 192 Sakarya University students, between 17-45 age ranges (54.7% female, 44.3% male). Needs Satisfaction Scale and Oxford Happiness Questio...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between meaning in life and subjective well-being. The sample of the study consisted of 232 university students (171 female / 61male) from Sakarya University. The Satisfaction with Life Scale, The Positive-Negative Affect Scale and The Meaning in Life Questionnaire were used to collect data...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity and reliability of 'The Body Image Coping Strategies Inventory-BICSI' developed by Cash, Santos and Williams1. BICSI, 29 item, self-report measurement. It consists three subscales: Appearance fixing, positive rational acceptance and avoidance. Methods: BICSI was administered to 47...

Objective: The aim of this study is to adapt The Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE) to Turkish and to examine its reliability and validity. Three hundred and twwenty five (325) university student from Sakarya University (124 female, 201 male) participated in the study. The validity and reliability of scale was investigated by test re-te...