Mehmet Akif Karaman

• PhD
• Associate Professor at American University of the Middle East

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric evidence for Achievement Motivation and General Mattering scores among Latinx college students in Mexico and the United States based on degree of measurement invariance. Validating instruments in cross-cultural contexts is essential to ensure that psychological constructs are measured relia...

Antioxidant intake may contribute to the prevention of numerous diseases, particularly those related to stress-induced psychiatric and stress disorders. The current study aimed to assess the relationship between daily antioxidant intake (DAI) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) in adults. It also sought to investigate the correlation between the...

The main purpose of the current study was to explore the work-life balance experiences of white-collar employees who shifted to remote work in a Technopark in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic, using a phenomenological approach. The research was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, 49 white-collar workers participated by completing online...

The purpose of the current study was to explore the relationships between depression, self-esteem, and loneliness among Turkish pre- service teachers. The study emphasized that it is valuable to address psychological well-being and social support of students preparing for the Public Personnel Selection Examination (PPSE). The study, which was a seq...

Background The introduction of solid foods to infants involves various feeding techniques. While these methods are often studied for their nutritional implications, their impact on maternal mental health, particularly on generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), remains understudied. Research aim : This study aimed to explore the association between fee...

The main goal of this study was to examine the extent to which the demographic characteristics of pre-service teachers (gender, family management style, family educational status, size of the family) predict their emotional intelligence (EI) scores through achievement motivation (AMO) and Self-Efficacy (SE) scores. The study consisted of 326 pre-se...

The global health crisis, COVID-19, swiftly enveloped people all around the world. Upon the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 as a pandemic, numerous countries have determined their own road maps. The main purpose of this study was to understand the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the life balance of parents with children aged 0-6...

Purpose This study aims to explore how factors such as working conditions, lifestyle choices and demographic characteristics may affect the mental health of industrial workers in Kuwait. Design/methodology/approach Within the scope of the study’s objective, the authors reached 400 industrial workers (228 male, 172 female) working in oil and gas or...

Positive psychology is a valuable framework for understanding teacher candidates’ mental health perceptions. In the current study, we examined how the presence of meaning in life, search for purpose in life, psychological grit, and hope influenced teacher candidates’ subjective happiness and depressive symptoms in a Hispanic Serving Institution. Us...

During the past years business environment changed and many businesses adapted through creating new and different markets. In parallel, a need arose for critical information explaining important human factors during the decision-making process. Therefore, this paper aims to discover the prevalence of decision-making style (intuitive or analytical)...

The main purpose of this study was to determine the protective factors that can aid people in their recovery or help maintain their well-being in the face of collective adversity, in this case, the COVID-19 pandemic, and to examine how these factors can be further strengthened. The study included 89 participants from 14 different cities in Turkey,...

Motivational studies have helped to understand human psychology as well as to better comprehend people’s learning, achievement, thinking, and comprehension skills. The current study aimed to adapt the Contextual Achievement Motivation Measure (CAMM) developed in English to the Turkish language. The Contextual Achievement Motivation Measure, unlike...

The current study was designed based on the life balance areas of positive orientation and depression. General mattering and life satisfaction are important positive psychological factors for individuals. The purpose of the study was to investigate both theoretical and empirical gaps in our knowledge of whether general mattering and life satisfacti...

This study aimed to examine bullying, achievement motivation, and resilience levels of both Syrian refugee students and Turkish students at an Islamic religion-based high school for boys. The sample included 289 students. One hundred and forty-three (49.50%) of the participants were Syrian and 146 (50.50%) were Turkish students. The mean age of the...

Forced migration is a phenomenon that profoundly affects the levels of resilience and life satisfaction of refugees. Hence, the purpose of current study is to address how Syrian refugee university students who study in Turkey recovered after deformation caused by significant changes in their life. This study employed a convergent mixed method desig...

This study aimed to examine the prevalence of PTSD among undergraduate students and how PTSD affected life balance of undergraduate students who live close to conflict zones. The participants of the study were 253 undergraduate students who lived close to conflict zone and witnessed or experienced bombing or war conflicts. Data collection instrumen...

Objective: Inflammatory processes have a main role in the etiopathogenesis of psychosis. The aim of current study was to examine differences between the patients with the first episode psychosis's (FEPP) neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) levels with the healthy control groups The NLR and PLR are indicators...

The puspose of the current study was to examine the relationship between the psychological resilience and life balance points among nurses. The study design was descriptive and cross-sectional, and conducted with 155 nurses. Data collection instrumetns included a Demographic Form, the Resilience Scale for Adults, and the Juhnke-Balkin Life Balance...

Health professionals constitute a group that is at a high risk of COVID-19. They have been found to experience difficulties in many issues, one of which is that they face the risk of infecting themselves and others due to interaction with high-risk patients. The present study investigates how demographical and individual factors and work addiction...

Dünyanın en büyük e-satış platformlarından birinin sahibi olan Çinli iş adamı Jack Ma, bir mülakatında gelecek on yıl ile ilgili dünyaya dair öngörülerinde adalet, yılmazlık, eğitim ve ahlaki gelişim gibi değerler üzerine önemli sözler sarf etmişti. Hiç şüphesiz içinde bulunduğumuz bin yılda en çok sarf edilen kelimelerden biri “değişim.” Evet, ins...

This study investigated the relationship among academic self-concept, social support, and college adjustment of first-year college students enrolling at a Hispanic Serving Institution in the southwestern United States. A total of 496 first-year undergraduate students (291 females, 205 males) participated in the study. Results indicated that being m...

Current scholarship on translingual pedagogies focus on writer’s translingual strategies and practices. While scholarship explores translingual assessment practices, there is limited quantitative research on how we can measure students’ translingual dispositions. This article examines factor structure of a Translingual Disposition Questionnaire to...

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effects of COVID-19 on high school students' psychological symptoms and to understand how ready counselors and school counseling services are based on the data we have. Therefore, this research is designed under two different studies: (A) Study 1: Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on students' psyc...

Objective: Monocyte to high density lipoprotein ratio (MHR) is a new instrument for giving notice inflammation, which plays a main role in schizophrenia. Thus, in this study, our goal was to investigate the possible association between MHR and schizophrenia. Methods: The participants of this study consisted of 75 schizophrenia patients and 74 health...

In this study, we examined the association between resilience, academic self-concept, and first-year student adjustment to college using data collected from 514 first-year undergraduate students enrolled at a medium-size, Hispanic-serving university in the southern United States. Utilizing a simultaneous multiple regression analysis, we found resil...

zet: Çocukların güvenli ve huzurlu bir ortamda yaşaması oldukça önemli olmasına rağmen ne yazık ki dünyada birçok ülkede her sene milyonlarca çocuğa zarar verilmekte, çocuklar fiziksel, cinsel veya duygusal istismara maruz kalmaktadırlar. Cinsel istismar öyküsü olan çocukların tespit edilmesi için okul ortamı oldukça elverişlidir. Bu sebeple okul p...

This study examined the effects of psychological (life satisfaction, depression, social support) and familial factors (the size of family, family structure, education levels of parents) on first-year university students’ positive orientation. Positive orientation is an important element of life balance and expresses the positivity and attitudes of...

The purpose of the current study was to understand to what extent Turkish middle school students' self-efficacy and perfectionism scores explained their academic motivation. Findings from this study have potential to influence counseling interventions, education, and future research. First, findings show that perceptions of self-oriented perfection...

In this study, we aimed to examine how counseling service provided to college students, through a contextual clinical counseling model, affects the anxiety level of college students at a university in the east of Turkey. We followed a quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest and with control group design method. The experimental group comprised 205...

Today the world is suffering from coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic illness, and people all around the world stay at home due to its rapid spread. People including students gather information and government instructions through TVs, social media and others around them. Since the classes were canceled in many countries, the novel coronavirus affects s...

In recent years, social media use and its effects on mental health have been investigated many times. Mostly, studies focused less on the global health when addressing mental health. In this cluster analysis study, on a sample of 261 Turkish college students who were emerging adults, the associations between social media use and depression, sleep d...

The purpose of this study was to develop a theoretically driven instrument of achievement motivation and determine its validation. The Achievement Motivation Measure (AMM) is closely aligned with Atkinson and McClelland's (1948, 1953, 1961) theoretical constructs of achievement thoughts and behaviours. Confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis (...

In this study, we present the inter-relationships among humanistic and positive psychology factors in explaining Latinx college students’ life satisfaction. A modified path model revealed that hope mediated two relationships: that between resilience and life satisfaction, as well as meaning in life and life satisfaction. However, contrary to what w...

Psychometric properties of measures of hope and meaning in life in Spanish among Latina/o college students were investigated. A confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate structural validity of instruments. Findings provided support for the reliability and validity of scores on the Disposition Hope Scale and Meaning in Life Questionnaire wit...

Tanrının sesinin duyulmakta zorlanılacağı zamanlardan bahseder Kemal Sayar. Öyle görünüyor ki 21. yüzyıl belki de modernitenin ekonomik veya politize olmuş beklentilerinin çığlıkları arasında en çok da çocukların sesinin duyulmakta zorlanıldığı bir döneme işaret etmektedir. Daha vahim olan/olacak ise çocukların sessizliği tercih etmeye başlamaları...

Suriye krizinin 2011 yılında başladığı dikkate alındığında, bugün ülkemizde eğitim gören Suriyeli öğrencilerin büyük çoğunluğunun savaş öncesi, sırası ve sonrası travmatik etkileri doğrudan yaşayan çocuklar oldukları söylenebilir. Musa’nın hikâyesinde olduğu gibi, üzerinden yıllar geçse de, Suriyeli çocukların yaşadıkları bu acılar dün yaşanmışçası...

Diyalektik Davranış Terapisi (DDT) üçüncü dalga terapiler içinde yer alan ve deneysel olarak farklı gruplarla sınanmış yaklaşımlardan biridir. Marsha Linehan tarafından 1990'ların başında sınırda kişi-lik bozukluğu tanısı konmuş hastaların iyileştirilmesi amacı ile geliştirilen bu yaklaşım daha sonra farklı problem ve davranış sorunlarıyla da baş e...

For decades, researchers have attempted to define and measure what motivates individuals to achieve. Numerous attempts have sought to measure achievement motivation by using self-report tests. The concepts of motivation and achievement motivation have a rich history of being discussed among different cultures. The purpose of this study was to adapt...

This study investigated the factorial validity of the Contextual Achievement Motivation Measure, assessing achievement motivation in multiple settings with a sample of 493 undergraduate and graduate students. Exploratory factor analysis identified a four‐factor model: School (6 items), Employment/Work (6 items), Family (5 items), Community (4 items...

This study presents a culturally and psychometrically sound instrument of perceived school counselor support among Turkish high school students. The study has been framed using American School Counseling Association’s Mindsets and Behaviors for Students Success Model to create a valuable instrument that measures students’ perceptions of their schoo...

The purpose of this study was to examine factors predictive of college students' academic stress. Three hundred seven undergraduate students (179 men, 128 women) participated in the study. Results indicated that female college students had higher academic stress than did male college students. Bivariate correlations and multiple regression analyses...

With increasing interest in factors related to positive development and the growing U.S. Spanish-speaking population, there is a growing need to provide validity evidence for instruments in Spanish with Latinx populations. This study reported psychometric properties of U.S.-Spanish versions of the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS; Smith et al. 2008) and...

Counselor's self-efficacy theory serves as having major implications for educators and researchers in the counseling field. The self-efficacy of counselors-in-training (CsIT) typically increases as they evaluate and integrate their experiences during their training program. One of the goals of counselor education programs is to understand how CsIT...

The current study shows the applications of both classical test theory (CTT) and item response theory (IRT) to the psychology data. The study discusses item level analyses of General Mattering Scale produced by the two theories as well as strengths and weaknesses of both measurement approaches. The survey consisted of a total of five Likert-type it...

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) within a sample of Hispanic college students. The sample of 223 Hispanic or Latino/a college students consisting of 142 women (65%) and 79 men (35%) was recruited from a Hispanic serving institution in th...

The authors administered Spanish versions of 2 measures of subjective well‐being to Latinx college students. Results of a confirmatory factor analysis support the reliability and validity of the Satisfaction With Life and Subjective Happiness scales. Psychometric properties and implications for humanistic counselors are discussed.

In the current study, the psychometric properties of a measure of psychological grit among 344 Latinx college students was investigated. Researchers used confirmatory factor analysis to validate a previously identified two-factor model of the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S). Internal consistency was acceptable as measured by coefficient alpha. A two-fact...

In the current study, we investigated the psychometric properties of two meaningful measures of support from teachers and school counselors among Latina/o students. Examining factorial stability with diverse populations is important to make sure that measures provide valid information about constructs of teacher or counselor support. While research...

This study investigated the factor structure of the Juhnke–Balkin Life Balance Inventory (JBLI) with a sample of 429 Turkish participants. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the validated 10-factor model of JBLI did not fit the Turkish data. Therefore, a parallel analysis and an exploratory factor analysis were used to create the JBLI Turk...

This chapter provides best practice recommendations for the implementation of a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) informed Skills intervention in middle and high school settings. Modifications to the standard DBT treatment protocols are discussed. Sample formats and usable skills training session templates are included in the appendices. These r...

In the current study, the psychometric properties of a measure of psychological grit among 344 Latinx college students was investigated. Researchers used confirmatory factor analysis to validate a previously identified two-factor model of the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S). Internal consistency was acceptable as measured by coefficient alpha. A two-fact...

International counseling students' (ICS) perceptions regarding ethical counseling practice and education in the United States were examined using an online survey. The research sample consisted of ICSs who were enrolled in counseling programs throughout the United States. Findings indicated that even though ICSs came from different cultures with di...

This study investigated the mediation effect of locus of control and achievement motivation between academic stress and life satisfaction. A total of 307 undergraduate students recruited from a Hispanic Serving Institution in South Texas participated in the study. In the frame of the study, two mediation models were tested by utilising PROCESS Proc...

This study compared measures of achievement motivation, life satisfaction, academic stress, and locus of control across 307 U.S. and international undergraduate students. Descriptive statistics and MANOVA were used to analyze the variables. A hierarchical multiple regression was employed to determine the extent to which locus of control, academic s...

Movements such as the Arab Spring (as described by popular media) and recent regional conflicts have forced people to leave their homes and flee to other countries or regions. Syrian refugees are currently the second largest refugee group worldwide, with half of them resettled in Turkey. Turkish government and non-governmental civil organizations h...

International students are one of the fastest growing higher education populations in the U.S. Adapting to new environments and cultures is stressful and may affect a student’s life satisfaction and motivation. Knowing how international and domestic students correspond or differentiate in terms of satisfaction of life, academic stress, locus of con...