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    The reliability and validity study of the reasonability of prosocial lie test – child form
    (Cyprus Mental Health Institute, 2022) Aydın, M. Ş.; Karakelle, S.; Kumru, Asiye; Psychology; KUMRU, Asiye
    Children’s perceptions of lying behaviors and their evaluations about different types of lies are among the topics discussed in the field. It is seen that the studies conducted on this subject focus on the lies that are told with antisocial and prosocial intentions that are opposite to each other. Besides, only a few studies have addressed children’s assessments of lies which are told for prosocial reasons. In these studies, it is also known that the researchers used various stories while examining the extent to which children perceive lies as reasonable through different stories. In the current study, it is aimed to conduct the validity and reliability study of the “Reasonability of Prosocial Lie Test-Child Form” in order to see whether the stories whether the stories measure the concept in Turkish sample. In addition, it was investigated for which reasons prosocial lies are more appropriate by focusing on the prosocial type of lying. A total of 277 children, 144 girls and 133 boys, aged between 8 and 13 years, participated in the study. Within the scope of validity studies, an exploratory factor analysis was performed, and it was founded that the final version of the test has an 11-item structure, 6 of which are “politeness lies”, 3 of which are "collaborative lies" emerging after someone else's request, and 2 of which are “negative lies” told for own benefit. In addition, the internal consistency coefficients of the test and the test-retest reliability coefficients revealed that the test was also reliable. The results of the analysis showed that the Reasonability of Prosocial Lie Test-Child Form is a valid and reliable measurement tool that can be used to evaluate which types of lies are more appropriate for children in primary and secondary school.
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    The role of socio-economic status, mother’s psychopathology, reflective functioning and emotion socialization on toddlers’ behavior problems
    (Cyprus Mental Health Institute, 2022) Taşdelen, Afra Selcen; Kumru, Asiye; Arıkan, Gizem; Psychology; KUMRU, Asiye; ARIKAN, Gizem; Taşdelen, Afra Selcen
    The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationships between socio-economic status (SES), mother’s psychological symptoms, maternal reflective functioning, and mother’s use of emotional socialization practices and child behavioral problems during toddlerhood. The study also aimed to examine sex and age differences on the display of behavior problems of toddlers. Mothers who had children between the ages 1 to 3 and lived in different cities of Turkey (N = 534) participated in the study. The mothers were asked to complete a package of scales consisting of demographic form, Brief Symptom Inventory, Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire, Coping with Toddler Negative Emotions Scale, and Child Behavior Checklist. Based on the mothers’ reports, the results of hierarchical regression analyses showed that SES, maternal symptoms, and mother’s use of unsupportive emotion socialization behavior predicted toddler’s externalizing and internalizing behavior problems. Also, there was a significant age and sex differences on the child’ externalizing behavior problems with boys scoring higher than girls and older age children displaying more externalizing behavior problems than the younger ones. However, contrary to our expectations, mother’s supportive emotion socialization and reflective functioning didn’t predict child behavior problems. Overall, the present findings provide further support to family process model in predicting child behavior problems.