Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Psikoloji Bölümü, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2014
Öğrenci: DEMET İSLAMBAY
Danışman: BENGİ ÖNER ÖZKAN
Özet:The aim of the present thesis was to examine non-material beliefs, namely supernatural powers, spiritualism and superstitions, with regards to locus of control, general system justification, religious/spiritual coping and religiosity levels based on a sample from Turkey. In the first part of the study, semi-structured interviews were done with 29 interviewees in order to extract certain themes with regards to non-material beliefs. Then, non-material beliefs scale was developed with three subscales; namely, supernatural powers, spiritualism and superstitious beliefs. For the aim of examining the reliability and validity issues of the developed scale, a pilot analysis was conducted. After determining the validity and reliability of the constructed scale, main data were collected. 606 participants (376 females, 228 males and 2 other) filled the web-based questionnaires from different indices of socio-demographic backgrounds. Participants filled a set of scales: Locus of Control Scale, General System Justification Scale, Religious/Spiritual Coping Scale (RCOPE) and a set of questions related to socio-demographic variables. Male participants tended to believe non-material beliefs more than female participants. Participants who have different levels of age, income and education did not differ significantly in terms of non-material beliefs. In addition, people who had internal locus of control tended to report non-material beliefs more than who had external locus of control. As expected, higher general system justification scores predicted non-material beliefs positively. Higher religious/spiritual coping scores predicted supernatural powers and superstitious beliefs negatively. Finally, religiosity predicted all subscales of non-material beliefs scale significantly and positively. Results were presented and discusses accordingly. Different speculations, limitations and contributions of the present thesis were presented in the last part.