Reliability and Validity Analysis of Social Comparison Scale Turkish Version
Creators: name: Oksuz, Ergun
name: Malhan, Simten
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: AIMIt was aimed to determine the reliability and validity of the Social Comparison Scale (SCS) -Turkish adaptation.METHODSThe scale, which was formed as 5 items by Gilbert and Trent, was turned into an 18-item scale with the addition of some items resulting from a study conducted by Şahin and Şahin (1992) in the Turkish adaptation.It is a scale scored in six-point Likert style. High scores indicate positive self-scheme, low scores indicate negative self-scheme.SCS was applied to 54 university students who voluntarily participated in the study by explaining the study's purpose to the students who applied to Başkent University Medikosocial Health Center.The students to whom the scale was applied marked their SCS again on the same day.The data were evaluated using the SPSS 12.0 package program. In the reliability of the scale, the test-retest method for invariance, test-halving for inter-observer agreement and internal consistency for measurer reliability, and construct validity methods for validity were used.In these methods, analyzes were made with the formulas Cronbach-alpha, correlation, Spearman-Brown, factor analysis, t-test and chi-square test, main components, Scree test, and Varimax rotation.RESULTSThe study included 54 university students, 27 boys and 27 girls in the study.The research group's average age is 21.4 ± 1.9; this average; 21.2 ± 2.1 for girls and 21.6 ± 1.7 for boys.The mean SCS score was 85.9 ± 12.7 in the first application and 86.0 ± 14.6 in the second application.The difference is not statistically significant. (t = 0.977 p = 0.25)According to the results, it was found that the correlations between the items forming the SCS scale and the total score varied between 0.43 and 0.78, the Cronbach's alpha for the total score was 0.893, the test-retest reliability value was alpha = 0.918, and the internal consistency value was alpha = 0.878. Spearman-Brown split-half value was found to be 0.892. (p &lt;0.0001)In the analysis made with SPSS 12.0 without any limitation on the number of factors, it was seen that three factors explained 66.30 of the total variance.When the variance percentages were examined, it was seen that the measuring tool could be grouped under three factors, and varimax rotation was applied to group 18 items under 3 factors, and factor analysis was performed again.Three factors explain 56.7% of the total variance.When the items belonging to the factors are examined; It was thought that the first factor could be "social class components," the second factor could be "attractiveness components," and the third factor could be "social virtues" subscales. The factors are named in this way.The scale was converted to 10 items by excluding items with low correlation. According to this; social class components; insufficient / sufficient-superior, incompetent / resourceful, insecure / self-confident, charm components; Disliked / loved one, not alone / alone, excluded / accepted, antipathetic / sympathetic, social virtues included impatient / patient, intolerant / tolerant, disorganized / tidy.RESULTSFestinger emphasized that social comparison is the key variable in social relationships and developed the first comprehensive social comparison theory.The social comparison refers to people's cognitive judgments about comparing their own qualities with those of others.It is self-evaluations that are important in comparisons, and they depend more on how one evaluates oneself about a particular quality in others than on objective situations.Individuals prefer to compare themselves with those that are similar in that qualitative aspect.The Turkish version of SCS, which measures how the individual sees himself in various dimensions compared to others, is a scale that clinicians can apply in a short time with high-reliability (= 0.918) and validity.