Abstract:

Goals are the most important indicator for physical and mental health. If individuals set goals and strive for them, their life and their health conditions will get better position. Literature indicates that the happiest people have some goals to maintain for their happiness. As a result, this study aims to develop a striving for goal scale. There had been a total of 310 individuals (155 female and 155 male) in the study. The study group has individual from three important developmental stages like adolescents, young adults and adults. Adolescents are high school students in Eskisehir; young adults also students at Osmangazi University in Eskisehir. Adults came from university students’ family. It has been used scale development procedures in the study such as reliability and validity analysis, explatory and confirmatory analysis.  For validity of the scale, The Oxford Happiness Scale was implemented. Research results show that the scale which is developed has good and satisfactory reliability and validity values. Additionally, the scale which is named “Striving for goal scale” have three important dimensions which are named “Commitment of goals”, “Persistence in goal striving”, and also “Goals give up”. The Scale Striving for Goal is valid and reliable, and also will be used for future researches. 

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