title: Psychometric properties of the reassurance-seeking scale in a Turkish sample.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. tgencoz@metu.edu.tr
authors.forename: Tülin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gençöz
authors.forename: Faruk
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gençöz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012919:Social Behavior; D012928:Social Desirability; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014421:Turkey