İşyeri Şiddeti Ölçeğinin Türkçeye Uyarlanması
Turkish Adaptation of Workplace Violence Scale

Summary/Abstract: Purpose – This study aims to conduct the validity and reliability study of the "Workplace Violence Scale", which consists of 3 dimensions and 9 items called "Verbal Violence", "Physical Violence", "Sexual Violence", developed for exposure to workplace violence. The related scale allows to evaluate the exposure of employees to workplace violence. In this sense, it is seen that the number of measurement tools that are reliable and valid in our country is limited. Therefore, it is assumed that the adaptation of the workplace violence scale into Turkish will largely meet this need. Design/Method/Approach – In first stage of adaptation which the translation of the scale from its original language to Turkish, the five-step translation method developed by (Beaton et al,,2000). After this stage, the scale translated into Turkish was applied to 303 participants. First of all, linguistic equivalence of the scale was determined., Then, Exploratory Factor Analysis was applied to the scale, and the 3-factor structure in the original scale was tested. In the next step, the construct validity was tested by applying Confirmatory Factor Analysis to the scale. The internal consistency reliability of the scale was determined by applying the Cronbach Alpha test to the scale. Results – As a result of all the processes, the original scale consisting of 3 dimensions and 9 items was adapted into Turkish without any changes. Discussion – As a result of the procedures, it was concluded that the scale can be used as a measurement tool adapted to Turkish as it is used in the article.

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