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(ELEŞTİREL – YARATICI DÜŞÜNME VE DAVRANIŞ ARAŞTIRMALARI LABORATUVARI http://www.elyadal.org, 2004) Kökdemir, Doğan; Demirutku, Kürşad; Çırakoğlu, Okan Cem; Işın, Güler; Muratoğlu, Bahar; Sayın, Pelin; Yeniçer, Zuhal
Alienatıon from vs connection to the dasein: Existential angst of people with different worldviews
(Başkent Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019) Us, Elif Öykü; Kökdemir, Doğan
The purpose of the current study was to explore the relationship between Dasein, authenticity and death anxiety. Heidegger has defined Dasein, and implicated that there was a relationship between authenticity and Being-in-the-world. Those who were not connected to Being-in-the-world were indicated to be inauthentic against death anxiety. To test the existence of these connections, a Dasein Scale was developed in Study I. A question pool was developed by the researcher, and this pool was evaluated by 6 experts on psychology, and 6 laypersons to see whether the items were understandable, and whether they fit the dimension they were in. After this first evaluation of the questionnaire, the remaining items were used to collect data from a sample of 309 (220 females, 86 males). A principal component analysis was conducted on the data. As a result, a 5 component structure was obtained. These components were named Mitwelt, Extrovert Umwelt, Introvert Umwelt, Eigenwelt, and Überwelt. Internal consistency reliability and construct validity were assessed. Study II explored the relationship discussed above. In this study, participants’ Dasein was measured, then, they were either exposed to their own mortality, or they were assigned to the control condition. After the manipulation, participants completed the Authenticity Scale. Data was collected from 138 participants (69 participants in experiment, 69 participants in control groups). At first, a correlation analysis was conducted to see the relationships between Dasein subscales and authenticity subscales. Then, a regression analysis was conducted to see whether Dasein dimensions predicted authenticity. Eigenwelt and Überwelt subscales were found to be predicting authenticity, indicating that connection to Eigenwelt and Überwelt would lead to higher authenticity. A moderating effect of death anxiety on the relationship between Dasein and authenticity was not observed. All in all, the current study revealed a possible research area in psychological literature. In addition, the developed which was developed to study Being-in-the-word is the first measurement tool to assess Dasein. Mevcut araştırmanın amacı Dasein, otantiklik ve ölüm kaygısı arasındaki ilişkiyi incelemektir. Heidegger Dasein’ı tanımlamış ve otantiklik ile Dünyada-var-olma arasında bir ilişki olduğunu, Dünyada-var-olmaya bağlanmayan bireylerin ölüm kaygısı karşısıında otantikliklerini yitirdiklerini söylemiştir. Bu ilişkilerin varlığını sınamak için Çalışma I’de bir Dasein Ölçeği oluşturulmuştur. Araştırmacı tarafından oluşturulan soru havuzu, her bir sorunun bulundukları boyuta uygunluklarının ve anlaşılabilirliklerinin değerlendirilmesi için psikoloji alanında uzman 6 kişiye ve psikoloji alanında uzman olmayan 6 kişiye verilmiştir. Ölçeğin bu ilk değerlendirilmesinden sonra kalan maddeler ile 309 katılımcıdan very toplanılmıştır (220 kadın, 86 erkek). Veri üzerinde temel bileşenler analizi uygulanmıştır. Sonuç olarak 5 adet bileşen elde edilmiştir. Bu bileşenlere Mitwelt, Extrovert Umwelt, Introvert Umwelt, Eigenwelt ve Überwelt isimleri verilmiştir. Bileşenlerin iç geçerlikleri ve yapı geçerlikleri control edilmiştir. Çalışma II ise yukarıda bahsedilen ilişkiyi incelemiştir. Bunun için katılımcılar öncelikle Dasein Ölçeğini çözmüşler, ölüm manipülasyonuna ya da kontrol koşuluna maruz kalmışlar, ardından Otantiklik Ölçeğini çözmüşlerdir. Veri 69 kişi deney, 69 kişi konrol grubunda olmak üzere toplam 138 kişiden toplanmıştır. Dasein boyutları ve otantiklik boyutları arasındaki ilişkiyi ortaya çıkarabilmek için korelasyon analizi uygulanmıştır. Ardından hangi Dasein boyutlarının otantikliği yordadığını bulabilmek için regresyon analizi yapılmıştır. Regresyon analizinin sonucunda Eigenwelt ve Überwelt boyutlarının otantikliği yordadığı, Eigenwelt ve Überwelt’e bağlanma arttıkça otantikliğin de arttığı bulunmuştur. Dasein ve otantiklik arasındaki ilişkide ölüm kaygısının düzenleyici etkisine rastlanılmamıştır. Sonuç olarak mevcut araştırma, psikoloji literatüründe olası bir araştırma alanının kapısını açmıştır. Bunun yanında mevcut araştırma kapsamında Dünyada-var-olmanın çalışılması için geliştirilen ölçek, Dasein’ın ampirik olarak ölçen ilk ölçüm aracı özelliğini taşımaktadır.
The effect of existential anxieties on emotions & feelings
(Başkent Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2020) Tasman, Dicle Rojda; Kökdemir, Doğan
Existentialism is the philosophy of the essence of human existence, its value, and its meaning (Panza & Gale, 2008). From the perspective of existentialism, existential anxieties (death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness) are specific intrinsic properties that are an unavoidable part of the human being's existence in the world (Yalom, 1980). Since both existential anxieties and emotions play significant role in human life, they are the main focus of the present study. Even though many existentialists talked about emotions (e.g., Kierkegaard, 1980/1844; Sartre, 1993/1948) and existential anxieties (e.g., Heidegger, 1962/1927; Yalom, 1980), there appeared almost no empirical study on the effects of those four existential anxieties on emotions. Thus, the main purpose of the present study to find out the effects of existential anxieties (death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness) on emotions/feelings. First, in order to identify emotion and feeling words, lexicography of Turkish emotion and feeling words made in the dictionary study. Also, in Pilot Study 1, an open-ended question about participants’ feelings about the existential anxiety texts were asked. By taking into consideration the literature, dictionary study, and content analysis of Pilot Study 1, 47 different Turkish emotion/feeling words were selected for the Emotions/Feelings Scale. Then, the factorability of the 47 items was examined. Accordingly, 30 items were used as a negative emotions/feelings score and 14 items were used a positive emotions/feelings scores. Second, in order to see whether different existential anxieties will affect the likings of different paintings, the Pilot Study 2 was conducted. After reading existential anxiety texts, participants were asked to write down what kind of photo, picture, or graphic they visualized in their mind about each concept of anxiety and also, the opposite concept of each anxiety. By taking into consideration the participants’ responses, 9 different paintings were selected according to 3 different categories (3 for each category). Paintings that include human figures, abstract, and nature paintings were used as 3 different categories. Finally, in the main study, the effect of type of existential anxieties on emotions/feelings and painting liking scores were examined. However, neither emotions/feelings nor the painting liking scores were significantly changed according to existential anxiety conditions. The possible reasons for these results were discussed.