Psychometric properties of the reassurance-seeking scale in a Turkish sample

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2005-02-01

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Gençöz, Tülin
Gençöz, Faruk

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This study examined the psychometric properties of the Reassurance-Seeking Scale in a sample of 102 Turkish undergraduate students. High internal consistency reliability was found for the Reassurance-Seeking Scale (alpha=.86). Factor analysis of the scale identified a single component that accounted for 71% of the total variance. The scale was significantly positively correlated with the Beck Depression Inventory and Beck Anxiety Inventory and had a significantly negative correlation with the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale. Partial correlations of Reassurance-seeking with Depression scores as controlled by Anxiety scores and with Anxiety scores as controlled by Depression scores indicated that Reassurance-seeking scores maintained association with Depression but not with Anxiety. All these findings were in line with expectations.

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Depression, Youth

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/53193

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PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS

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Department of Psychology, Article

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T. Gençöz and F. Gençöz, “Psychometric properties of the reassurance-seeking scale in a Turkish sample,” PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS, pp. 47–50, 2005, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/53193.