@article{2013,title={THE ADAPTATION OF PERCEIVED SOCIAL COMPETENCE SCALE TO TURKISH: THE STUDY OF VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY},abstractNode={The aim of this research is to adapt the Perceived Social Competence Scale (Anderson-Butcher, Iachini, & Amorose, 2007) to Turkish and to examine its psychometric properties. The research was conducted on 444 high school students in Sakarya, Turkey. The validity and reliability of scale was investigated by test re-test, Cronbach alpha, confirmatory factor analysis and criterion related validity methods. The Self-Confidence Scale (Akin, 2007) was used for the criterion related validity. Results confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that 6 items yielded one factor as original form and that the one-dimensional model was well fit (x²=7.34, df=7, RMSEA=.010, CFI=1.00, RFI=0.99, IFI=1.00, AGFI=.98, GFI=.99, NFI=.99 and SRMR=.018). Factor loadings ranged from .57 to .80. Cronbach alfa internal consistency coefficient of the scale was found as .80. In the concurrent validity significant relationships were found between perceived social competence, internal self-confidence (r= .39) and external self-confidence (r= .39). Corrected item-total correlations ranged from .52 to .66 and according to t-test results differences between each item’s means of upper 27% and lower 27% points were significant. Overall results demonstrated that Perceived Social Competence Scale can be used as a valid and reliable instrument in the field of education, psychology and guidance. The future studies which the focused should be oriented toward relationships between this scale and other effective structures such as assertiveness, emphatic tendency, communication skills.},author={Hakan SARIÇAM-- Ahmet AKIN - Ümran AKIN - Mehmet ÇARDAK},year={2013},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}