İklim Değişikliği Kaygı Ölçeği: Türkçeye Uyarlama, Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması
Climate Change Worry Scale: Adaptation to Turkish, Validity and Reliability Study

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this research is to adapt the Climate Change Worry Scale developed by Alan Stewart (2021) into Turkish. The original language of the one-dimensional scale is English. Three field experts translated the scale into Turkish for the linguistic equivalence study. The scale, which was translated into Turkish, was examined by a commission of experts and turned into a common Turkish form. The prepared Turkish form was sent to three different experts from the field of English Language and Literature, and the experts were provided to translate the form back into English. The English form, which was created by consensus, was sent to an expert whose mother tongue was English and knew Turkish very well, and he was asked to examine the form. In order to make the linguistic equivalence of the scale, the Turkish form and the English form, which were finalized, were administered to 63 university students with an interval of 15 days. The Turkish form with linguistic equivalence was applied to a different study group, 308 university students. Then, within the scope of validity and reliability studies, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) were performed. According to the results of the factor analysis, it was revealed that the scale adapted to Turkish is a valid one-dimensional scale. The reliability of the scale was calculated with the Cronbach Alpha coefficient and the result was 0.98. Along with the adaptation studies, it has been revealed that the Climate Change Anxiety Scale is a valid and reliable scale to measure the climate change anxiety of university students in Turkey.

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