Berke Kirikkanat

• Associate Professor
• Associate Professor at Yeditepe University

p style="text-align:justify">One of the life areas under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is university education. As it becomes more prevalent with its various versions, it shapes undergraduates' psychological well-being profoundly. It is necessary to understand how COVID-19-related stress impacts their mental life. The purpose of the study was...

Having effective career planning attitudes is a significant psychological resource for dealing with occupational burdens, unanticipated conflicts, and ambivalences in business area. The major purpose of the study was to reveal whether Turkish undergraduates’ career planning attitudes were shaped by their trait emotional intelligence, cognitive flex...

Motivation, the powerful force behind our behavior, takes place in various areas of one’s life. As globalization has a great impact on the world, individuals not only compete with their peers but also contend with the universe in terms of self-actualization. In psychological terms, self-actualization is a prevalent need for everybody, enabled by su...

The aim of the present study was to figure out whether university students’ learning approaches were shaped via their achievement goal orientations, academic self-efficacy and hope or not. The other objective was to examine if these psychological constructs varied in accordance with the demographic variables including gender, age and class level. 3...

The major purpose of this study was to create a path analysis model of academic success in a group of university students, which included the variables of academic confidence and psychological capital with a mediator variable-academic coping. 400 undergraduates from Marmara University and Istanbul Commerce University who were in sophomore, junior a...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the degrees of older individuals’ life satisfaction, meaning of life and loneliness within the frame of dynamics of life. In accordance with this aim, “Meaning in Life”, “Life Satisfaction Scale” and “UCLA Loneliness Scale” were applied to 96 participants (51 males and 45 females at the ages of 60 and above)...

The Academic Coping Strategies Scale (the ACS Scale) developed by Sullivan in 2010 is a pivotal screening tool for counselors and educators to understand undergraduates' handling mechanisms in a tough academic context. This study presents the psychometric features of Turkish version of the scale. 555 undergraduates from three universities in Istanb...

The purpose of the present study was to adapt the Academic Behavioral Confidence Scale (ABC) developed by Sander and Sanders [1] to Turkish and to figure out the validity and reliability of the scale. The sample was composed of 577 undergraduates from Marmara University, Yildiz Technical University and Istanbul Commerce University in Istanbul. Expl...

In the 21st century, as the competition increases in each phase of life, motivation appears as the pivotal concept for the individuals who would like to attain their ideal life standards. Such a rivalry also affects the academic settings and the students’ inclinations towards success and failure. How the pupils shape their achievement goal orientat...

Motivation, the powerful force behind our behavior, takes place in various areas of one's life. As globalization has a great impact on the world, individuals not only compete with their peers but also contend with the universe in terms of self- actualization. In psychological terms, self-actualization is a prevalent need for everybody, enabled by t...