Özet:

Social support is the psychological source for individuals to deal with problems. In our knowledge, there is no measurement instrument to measure psychological dimension of community support for university students in Turkey despite the importance of the community support emphasized both in normal and clinical population in literature. For this reason, in the study, the validity and reliability of community subscale of Perceived Social Support Scale developed by Yıldırım (1997) in high school sample was examined in university student sample. For this purpose, data were collected from 300 university students who continue their education in various faculties in Ordu University. As a result of the confirmatory factor analysis, it has been observed that single factor structure of the scale had acceptable coefficients. The correlations between Perceived Community Support Subscale, Perceived Social Support from Family Subscale and Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale were examined to determine the criterion based validity of the scale and these values were found as significant. In addition, within the scope of the reliability studies of Perceived Community Support Subscale, Cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficient and the equivalence coefficient was calculated and it was found as .93 and .93, respectively. Also, it is found that community support levels of university students do not vary by gender. These findings are discussed in the light of the related literature.

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