Social Safeness and Psychological Vulnerability in Turkish Youth: The Mediating Role of Life Satisfaction

Psychometric Properties of the Psychological Vulnerability Scale in Higher Education Students

“…Thus, the PVS has been confirmed as a valid, reliable, and stable measure for research purposes involving higher education students (Akin, 2014; S. Satici, 2016; S. Satici et al, 2015; Uysal, 2015) and has the advantage of being a brief measurement instrument.…”

“…Despite the original purpose of the PVS to screen chronically ill persons, currently there is a growing interest in this scale to measure the psychological vulnerability of students, and this condition has also been addressed as a relevant mental health issue among higher education students, due to the negative relations that have been found with adaptive constructs, and as predictor of negative health outcomes (S. Satici et al, 2015;S. Satici & Uysal, 2016;Uysal, 2015).…”

“…Satici et al, 2014), subjective happiness (S. Satici & Uysal, 2016), life satisfaction, social safeness, positive affect, flourishing, and hope (S. Satici et al, 2015).…”

“…Negative correlations have been found with adaptive constructs such as social competence (B. Satici et al, 2014), subjective happiness (S. Satici & Uysal, 2016), life satisfaction, social safeness, positive affect, flourishing, and hope (S. Satici et al, 2015). Conversely, positive relations have been found with negative health outcomes like Facebook addiction (B.…”

“…Satici, 2016; S. Satici & Uysal, 2016; S. Satici, Uysal, Yilmaz, & Deniz, 2015) and positively correlated with negative health outcomes (Akin, 2014; B.…”