The investigation of validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the brief self-control scale

• Published in: Klinik Psikofarmakoloji Bülteni-Bulletin of Clinical Psychopharmacology
• Main Authors: Nebioğlu, Melike, Konuk, Numan
• Other Authors: Uludağ Üniversitesi/Eğitim Fakültesi/Eğitim Bilimleri Bölümü., Akbaba, Sırrı, Eroğlu, Yüksel, 55497698800, 36631661500
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Küre İletişim Grubu 2012
• Subjects: Pharmacology & pharmacy; Psychiatry; Psychiatric status rating scales; Reliability and validity; Impulsive behavior; Grades; Psikiyatrik durumu değerlendirme ölçekleri; Güvenilirlik ve geçerlilik; Dürtücü davranış; Satisfaction with Life; Quality of Life; College Students; Anger; Article; Brief self control scale; Criterion related validity; Discriminant analysis; Discriminant validity; Human; Impulsiveness; Internal consistency; Major clinical study; Predictive value; Psychiatric diagnosis; Rating scale; Receiver operating characteristic; Reliability; Self control; Sensitivity and specificity; Social adaptation; Test retest reliability; Validity; Tromso
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11452/25587; https://doi.org/10.5455/bcp.20120911042732; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.5455/bcp.20120911042732

The investigation of validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Brief Self-Control Scale Objective: The Learned Resourcefulness Scale has been utilized to measure self-control in research in Turkey. However, this scale may not be appropriate to measure the trait of self-control. For this reason, we aimed to adapt the Brief Self-Control Scale (BSCS), which was developed by Tangney, Baumeister, and Boone (2004), into Turkish. Methods: The validity and reliability tests were conducted with 523 participants who were not diagnosed with any psychiatric disorder. Discriminant validity was investigated by assessment with the BSCS, the social skills subscale of the Tromso Social Intelligence Scale (TSIS), the controlling negative body responses and anger management subscales of the Emotional Management Skills Scale (EMSS), and the BIS-11 on 36 euthymic bipolar I disorder patients (according to the DSM-IV-TR criteria) and 50 individuals without a psychiatric diagnosis. Test-retest reliability was done with 145 people who were chosen from among the 523 participants. Results: For language equivalency of the BSCS, the relationships between the English and Turkish versions of the BSCS were investigated using Pearson correlation and they were found to be r=0.72 for impulsiveness, r=0.76 for self-discipline, and r=0.73 for the total scale. To determine the factor structure of the BSCS, principal component analysis and varimax were used, and the analysis yielded two-factors called impulsiveness and self-discipline. The two-factor structure of the BSCS was confirmed by confirmation factor analysis. For criterion-related validity, correlations among subscales of the BSCS and social skills of the TSIS, controlling negative body responses and anger management subscales of the EMSS and the BIS-11 were utilized. They ranged from r=-0.11 to r=0.64 for impulsiveness, and r=0.19 to r=0.63 for self-discipline. The discriminant ability of impulsivity and self-discipline between euthymic bipolar I disorder patients and ...