TY  - JOUR
TI  - Turkish Adaptation of the Gratitude Questionnaire
AB  - Problem Statement: Although the study of gratitude in psychology has a very short history, the findings of several studies underline the role of gratitude in enhancing individual well-being. Therefore, it is important to be able to assess levels of individual gratitude in counseling and research settings. Since, in the Turkish literature, no measure of gratitude has been validated for college students, it is important to adapt The Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ), one of the most commonly used self-report measures of dispositional gratitude in recent literature, into Turkish, for use in research and practice. assessed by calculating the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient. Additionally, internal consistency was evaluated by calculating Cronbach's alpha, and item-total correlation and test-retest reliability coefficients were calculated by Pearson correlation. Findings and Results: Regarding construct validity, the scale was unidimensional. However, a five-item model, rather than the original sixitem version, fit the sample of Turkish college students better [GFI=0.97, CFI= .94, AGFI=0.90, SRMR = 0.04, RMSEA=0.10]. The findings also indicated sufficient evidence in favor of the concurrent validity and reliability of the Turkish GQ. Conclusions and Recommendations: The results of this study revealed that the five-item GQ can be used to evaluate prepositional gratitude among Turkish college students.
AU  - YÜKSEL, Asuman
AU  - OĞUZ DURAN, Nagihan
PY  - 2012
JO  - Eurasian Journal of Educational Research
VL  - 12
IS  - 46
SN  - 1302-597X
SP  - 199
EP  - 212
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/239378
ER  -