College students worldwide and in Turkey face many biopsychosocial spiritual and economic issues, in part due to developmental and contextual factors. Understanding these issues and their relationship with psychological inflexibility, which is the central concept to the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), is an unexplored gap in the literature. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to examine the mediating and moderating roles of Psychological Inflexibility (PI) in the relationship between Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE) and Psychological Vulnerability (PV), and to set an empirical ground for developing evidence-based research and practices based on ACT. The study group consisted of 389 undergraduate students studying in various departments of a mid-sized urban state university. Regression-based mediation and moderation testing procedures revealed that PI partially mediates the relationship between FNE and PV. Moderating role of PI on the same relationship was not verified. The present findings are deemed to be useful for understanding the relationships of these constructs and developing future mental health research and interventions to address biopsychosocial spiritual issues and enhance wellbeing especially from an ACT perspective.
Respect, subjective vitality, and subjective happiness can be associated with positive psychological functioning. In this study, subjective vitality was examined as a mediator on the relationship between respect toward partner and subjective happiness on a teachers' sample. The study is a quantitative cross-sectional mediation study. The data were collected from 172 married teachers by a questionnaire package that included the Respect toward Partner Scale, the Subjective Vitality Scale, and the Subjective Happiness Scale. Findings show that subjective happiness is predicted positively by respect toward partner and subjective vitality. Subjective vitality is predicted positively by respect toward partner. Also, the relationship between respect toward partner and subjective happiness is partially mediated by subjective vitality. Understanding the role of respect within close relationships could facilitate the development of interventions to enhance communication between partners about safety attitudes and decrease partner violence. Implications and limitations have been discussed within the scope of the relevant literature.
The aim of this research is to investigate the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Relational Approach to Work Scale (Matthew, Buontempo & Block, 2013). The participants of research were 294 (168 female and 126 male) university students. Results of confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that the scale yielded 2 factors, as original form: (relational and independent; x²= 999.43, df= 273, RMSEA= .095, CFI= .96, IFI= .96, NFI= .95, RFI= .94, NNFI= .96, SRMR= .067). The internal consistency coefficients were found as .93 for the relational subscale and as .91 for the independent subscale. The corrected item-total correlations of the scale ranged from .54 to .76. Overall findings demonstrated that this scale had high levels of validity and reliability and that it can be used as a valid and reliable instrument in order to measure the approach to work accurately. Further studies utilizing Relational Approach to Work Scale are important for its psychometric effectiveness.
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