DOĞAYA BAĞLILIK ÖLÇEĞİNİN TÜRKÇE UYARLAMASI: GEÇERLİK VE GÜVENİRLİK ÇALIŞMASI

Connectedness to the Nature is the individual connection to the nature or the emotional ties against nature. The main purpose of this research is to make the validity and reliability study of the Mayer and Frantz’s Connectedness to the Nature scale (2004) in Turkey conditions. This scale is developed to measure the individuals emotional commitment to the nature based on their experiences. The Turkish translation of the scale is made by the language experts by considering the properties of the Turkish language, country culture, social structure and environmental characteristics. The study group of this research is organized by the participants who do activities in Trabzon and Rize between the years of 2014-2015. In order to ensure the construct validity of the scale the explanatory (EFA) and confirmatory (CFA) factor analysis were used. For each factor analysis, completely independent two different data sets were formed. The Turkish translation of the scale is made by the language experts by considering the properties of the Turkish language, country culture, social structure and environmental characteristics. The study group of this research is organized by the participants who do activities in Trabzon and Rize between the years of 2014-2015. In order to ensure the construct validity of the scale the explanatory and confirmatory factor analysis were used. For each factor analysis, completely independent two different data sets were formed. The first data set has 89 women (27,2 %) and 238 men (72,8 %) in total 327; The second data set has 87 women (24,7 %) and 264 men (75,3%) in total 351 sample. Explanatory factor analysis results revealed an 8-item structure in two dimensions of the scale. The confirmatory factor analysis result confirmed us that this two-dimensional structure gives a good fit (RMSEA= .05; CFI= .98; X2/sd= 1.79). These sub-dimensions are “Integration with Nature” and “Part of Nature”. The internal consistency reliability coefficient of the whole scale is calculated as.85. The results shows that the Turkish version of Connectedness to the Nature scale is a reliable and valid scale and described at a good level in two factors. Key words: Connectedness to the Nature, Reliability, Validity, Scale Adaptation