Developing a Positive Psychotherapy Balance Model Application Scale to Study Academicians’ Skills in Solving Personality Conflicts
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: IntroductIonThroughout history, innovations in science, culture, art, economy, and technology affected education necessitating restructuring and interpretation.This urged educational institutions to raise academicians inclined to doing researches to contribute to science."Academician and Academic profession" concepts were first derived from "Academia Olive-grove" during Plato's teaching years in Athens (Odabası and Et All, 2008).Academic profession has been defined in several ways.As lexis, it refers to academicians' methods, discipline, and skills.The concept of "Academic Profession" is associated with activities in academic life.When literature is overviewed, it can be observed that academic life is more than teaching with Conflicts due to heavy work-load (Randall, 2006).Koblinsky and Mc Clintock-Comeaux (2006) argue that academicians, with teaching qualifications, are assigned several classes which make them overloaded.In several departments, academicians are experts in certain areas and they are expected to be equipped with wide knowledge (Marsh and Hattie, 2002).In this respect, their personalities play a great role in coping with Conflicts they experience.Man is a social being and needs others to meet his social needs, faced when interacting with other people.Personality is an integral part of social relationship, which is noticed when interacting with other people.Among the factors affecting personality are firstly the characteristics of social relationships, prioritized by individual differences and characters, which include thoughts, behaviors, feelings, and relationships (James, 1981).Secondly are social movements and thirdly the feedback from others during social interaction.Reactions from other people are determinants in shaping personality (Denissen, Schonbrodt, van Zalk, Meeus and van Aken, 2011: Neyer andLehnart, 2007).Personality is defined as the reaction to an individual's relative, persistent, and traced behavior patterns (Ozdemir, Ozdemir, Kadak and Nasıroğlu, 2012).However, the word is expressed differently in a descriptive quality and with an adjective today.For example, "an aggressive or well-adjusted personality" attracts our attention."Personality" is defined AbstrActThe principal focal point of Positive Psychotherapy is to specify the "positive" and reinterpret the symptoms/disorders in a positive way and help the client lead a balanced personal life.Human life is dealt within four-balance dimensions; the body (senses), achivement (mind), relationships (traditions), and the future/ Spirituality.Any individual experiencing such Conflicts is inclined to cope with them through different dimensions.This study aimed to develop a "Positive Psychotherapy Balance Model Scale" to be administered to the academicians at the university.The scale developed by the researchers was conducted on the academicians for its reliability and validity and the data were examined through 24.0 SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) program.The participants were picked through random sampling method, in which 291 participants out of 1200 were interviewed considering confidence-range and sampling-error.The validity and reliability of 23 items out of 51 in the Positive Psychotherapy Balance Model Scale were calculated.
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409514969