The Turkish Version of a Personal Responsibility Scale for Chinese College Students: Adaptation and Validation

Abstract

Mustafa Can Koc,1,2 Elif Yildirim,3 Liliana Nanu,4 Gabriel Marian Manolache4 1School of Physical Education and Sports, Istanbul Gelisim University, Istanbul, Türkiye; 2Directorate of Sports Sciences Application and Research Center, Istanbul Gelisim University, Istanbul, Türkiye; 3Department of Statistics and Quality Coordinator, Konya Technical University, Konya, Türkiye; 4Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Galati, RomaniaCorrespondence: Liliana Nanu; Mustafa Can Koc, Email [email protected]; [email protected]: The purpose of this study is to carry out the Turkish adaptation study of the personal responsibility scale developed by Ren et al for Chinese university students and to examine the validity and reliability of the adapted scale. The original scale was developed to determine the personal responsibility levels of Chinese university students. This research is very important in terms of determining the personal responsibility levels of Turkish university students.Methods: This research involved university students, who were selected through purposeful sampling, a non-probability sampling method. After the original scale was translated into Turkish, a pilot study was conducted on 165 students and exploratory factor analysis was conducted to reveal the scale structure. The validity and reliability of the determined factor structure was tested on 259 students. Internal consistency was obtained with the Cronbach Alpha coefficient. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to check the validity of the two subscale structure.Results: To examine the two-dimensional factor structure of the scale, fit indices were examined: X2/df (1.591), GFI (0.949), IFI (0.937), TLI (0.920), CFI (0.936), RMSEA (0.048) and SRMR (0.050) and It was observed that the indices were within acceptable limits. In the analysis results conducted with the multi-group confirmatory factor analysis method for measurement invariance, it was observed that ∆CFI and ∆TLI values among all metrics were less than or equal to 0.010.Conclusion: The Turkish version of the personal responsibility scale for Chinese college students, consisting of 12 items and two subscales, was proven to be a confirmatory and reliable tool to measure university students’ awareness of personal responsibility.Keywords: Turkish adaptation, university students, personal, responsibility, validation, scale

Keywords

• turkish adaptation
• university students
• personal
• responsibility
• validation
• scale