Abstract:

This study contains validity and reliability studies of the Academicians Mobbing Scale. The study group included 157 academicians from the Fatih University. Development of the scale had following that preparing the item pool and calculating the validity and reliability. An item pool was constituted based on the related literature. For determining the validity of scale, content and construct validity were used. Content validity of the scale was provided via expert judgment, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was done for construct validity. Moreover, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used for reliability of scale. The analysis results showed that there were five factors with 23 items in the scale. As a result, Academicians Mobbing Scale is a reliable and valid instrument to assess the academicians encountered in the identification of mobbing behaviors.

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