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The aim of this research is to adapt the Social Vulnerability Scale (Pinsker, Stone, Pachana, & Greenspan,
2006) to Turkish and to examine its psychometric properties. The research was conducted on 661 university
students in Sakarya University and Agri Ibrahim Cecen University. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) measure of
sampling adequacy of .95 and a significant result on Bartlett’s test of Sphericity χ2=500,498 (p<.001, df=105).
Results confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that 15 items yielded two factor as original form and that
the two-dimensional model was well fit (χ²= 283.21, df= 84, RMSEA= .075, CFI= .99, IFI= .99, NFI= .98,
RFI= .97, GFI= .92, SRMR= .043). Factor loadings ranged from .41 to .91. Cronbach alpha internal
consistency coefficient was found as .94 for whole scale, .87 for sub-dimension of gullibility, .93 for subdimension
of credulity. In the concurrent validity significant relationships (r= .34) were found between the
Social Vulnerability Scale and Psychological Vulnerability Scale. Test-retest reliability coefficient was .80 for
whole scale. Corrected item-total correlations ranged from .38 to .87. Overall results demonstrated that Social
Vulnerability Scale can be named as a valid and reliable instrument that could be used in the field of
psychology and education.
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