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 The aim of this study was to test Turkish reliability and validity of the "Event Satisfaction Scale" (ESS) developed by Oliver (1980), adapted to the leisure literature by Funk et al. (2011) and to examine its psychometric properties in the study. The research’s study group consisted of 391 individuals who receive recreational physical activity services from health and wellness clubs. "Event Satisfaction Scale" (ESS), “Oxford Happiness Questionnaire Short Form (OHQ-SF)”, “Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS)”, “Life Satisfaction Scale (LSS)” and “Recreational Flow Experience Scale (RFES)” were applied to all participants. “Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA)” was used for ESS’s construct validity, for criterion related validity, the correlations of ESS with other measuring methods used within the study were checked after ensuring the linguistic equivalence. The reliability of ESS was examined with composite reliability. The CFA result revealed that the single-factor structure of the scale was retained in the sample comprising Turkish people. The analysis performed for criterion related validity reveals that there was a statistically significant relationship between the other measurement tools that evaluate satisfaction and the ESS. In addition, the internal reliability value of the scale was found to be 0.91. The findings obtained from the study demonstrated that the Turkish version of the ESS might be accepted as a single factor structure, and that this form could be used as a valid and reliable measurement tool in evaluating the activity satisfaction levels of participants participating in recreational activities.

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