International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research

412 - 420

Authors: Zeynep Aydın Sünbül , Ferah Çekici

The purpose of this study is to understand the role of basic personality traits and attachment styles in predicting homesickness among first year college students. The study was conducted with 177 preparation class students who have moved to another city away from their family. Data was collected through ''Utrecht Homesickness Scale'' developed by Stroebe, Vliet, Hewstone, and Willis (2002), ''The Big Five Inventory'' by Benet-Martinez and John (1998) and ''Relationships Scales Questionnaire'' developed by Griffin & Barholomew (1994). Fearful and preoccupied attachment styles and neuroticism were found as significant predictors in explaining homesickness. Attachment styles and personality traits were found to explain 15% of variance in homesickness.

433 - 446

Authors: Murat Tuncer , Melih Dikmen , Ahmet Egemen Akmençe

The purpose of this study is to examine students' learning styles and their attitudes towards mobile learning. In this study, a screening model was used to describe the existing situation. In this context, research was conducted on 209 undergraduate students at Fırat University. To collect data, Kolb Learning Styles Inventory developed by Kolb and adapted to Turkish by Evin Gencel was used. The Mobile Learning Attitude scale developed by Demir and Akpınar was used to examine students' attitudes toward mobile learning. When the findings were examined, it was determined that 46.4% of the students had Assimilator, 25.8% of them Divergers, 14.8% of them Convergers and 12.9% of them had Accommodator learning style. The students with the highest attitude towards mobile learning were found to have a Converger learning style. It was determined that the students with the lowest attitudes towards mobile learning had a Diverger learning style. Among the important characteristics of the individuals with a Converger learning style are shown to prefer to work individually in learning activities. It can be said that individuals who have a Converger learning style are positively influenced by their attitudes toward mobile learning, because many applications on mobile learning platforms allow individual learning.

455 - 466

Authors: Mehmet Özberk

One of the most original voices of Russian immigrant literature, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov composed “The Luzhin Defence” and in this Russian novel, the real and metaphysical life, genius and insanity, game and player encounter as on a chess plane. For Nabokov chess is a world apart from a mind game with rigid rules and unlimited possibilities of moves. The protagonist Luzhin, is totally closed to the outside world and faces inward. He frees up his inner world of moves he made in chess, and by this way, he accomplishes restlessness, oppression in own family and difficulty of life. In this wise, while in the abstract world he can control his own truth, he is completely defenseless in normal life, which is regarded as a dream. This paper aims to make an overall assessment on place the novel “The Luzhin Defence” in Russian immigrant literature and Nabokov’s perspective in game, music, abstract and concrete world, human nature and psychological death concepts.

483 - 500

Authors: Özlem Kurtoğlu Zorlu

The aim of this study is to investigate Turkish and English proverbs related to the concept of otherness to identify similarities and differences between these two languages and cultures. Proverbs including words related to the concept of otherness such as ‘başkası’, ‘el’, ‘eloğlu’, etc. in Turkish and ‘other(s)’ in English and proverbs including words about social relations are analyzed in terms of the point of view they reflect to understand who are considered as “others” in these cultures. Findings indicate that in Turkish idioms, words about others are more frequently used and others are reflected negatively. In Turkish proverbs, the poor, step-children, girls and daughters, women, people with disabilities, Gipsies, Kurds and non-muslims are considered as others. In English proverbs, Indians, Greeks and Frenchmen are obviously seen as others.

514 - 529

Authors: Merve Can Maraşlı

With the sense of nationalism as a 'cultural movement' based on the unity of common language, history, emotion, tradition, custom and geography in essence, nationalism has become an ideology that states use for unifying and integrating society. According to this understanding, the bond of citizenship and common living are taken as basis, not the race. Indeed, the establishment of the Republic of Turkey was realized as a result of such an idea. One of the examples of the movement of the Turkish nation in unity and integrity around various nationalist elements has been the coup attempt of July 15th. In this study, it was aimed to see how and in what way nationalist elements were used in the July 15th films prepared to emphasize the democratic system and the unity and integrity of the country after the failure of the coup attempt. As a sample, 'July 15th Documentary of Presidency' was handled and this documentary film was analyzed by content analysis method. It has been revealed how both the visual and audiovisual elements that make up the film overlap with the emphasis of nationalism and how it reproduces it. This work is important to see how nationalism is used in films prepared by the state as an ideology that provides for integration.

547 - 559

Authors: Sevim Güllü

Employee happiness is one of the current issues in the organizational behavior field. It is quite a new concept in Turkish literature, and there is no study examining the employee happiness at sports business in literature, which makes the study an original one. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between demographic variables and employees’ happiness levels at sports businesses. This study’s sample consisted of 115 employees who have worked at four different sports businesses in İstanbul. This study uses a screening model. In the first part of the study, the participants provided information for the demographical variables. In the second part, participants completed the Employee Happiness Scale (Hills and Argyle), which had been developed and used in a master thesis (Akdeniz, 2016). The reliability of this instrument was assessed for the current study. Percentage and frequency tests were held so as to determine the range of the participants’ personal information. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test was used to examine whether the data had a normal distribution. The test results showed that the data obtained from the scale did have a normal distribution (p<0.05). Therefore, an independent t-test for 2-variable data and a one-way variance test (ANOVA) for more than two variables were conducted. According to the data analysis, there were statistically no significant differences between participants’ happiness and specific variables such as gender, marital status, employment type (payroll employment, contract labor, part-time employment) and salary (p>0.05). In a review of employee happiness in terms of age, the participants at the age of 26 and older were observed to express more opinions (t=-2.486; p=0.014<0.050). In terms of education, the participants with high school degree were found to express fewer opinions when they were compared to the participants with associate, bachelor or master degree (t=-2.352; p=0.020<0.050). In this sense, the study shows parallels with the issues surrounding counterproductive behaviors, organizational aberration and organizational revenge, all of which refer to negative organizational behaviors. This is because some studies in the literature demonstrate that as age, educational status and employment position rise, the negative behaviors decrease, similar to the finding of the current study demonstrating that the greater age and educational status were, the higher the level of happiness employees had.