Authors:Aleyna ŞAHİN; Bekir SARI, Bedel GÜLER, Sami ÇOKSAN Abstract: Authoritarian personality traits are associated with compliance and obedience to prevailing social norms and values. In contexts where the political climate fuels homophobia, people with authoritarian personality traits display more homophobic attitudes and behaviors. On the other hand, positive intergroup contact can reduce problems between groups. This positive intergroup contact, which emphasizes similarities by weakening baseless information about the outgroup, has long been used to reduce intergroup conflicts. In a heterosexual sample, whether positive intergroup contact will have a moderating role in the relationship between authoritarianism and homophobia is an open question. To answer this question, 241 young adults (Mage = 22.0, SD = 2.04; 59.3% female, 40.7% male) from 47 different cities of Türkiye were reached. Participants completed the right-wing authoritarianism scale, the social contact form with sexual minorities, and the Hudson & Ricketts homophobia scale. In parallel with the hypotheses, the findings show that authoritarian personality score positively predicted homophobia (β = .49, SE = .05, z = 10.07, p < .001), while positive intergroup contact negatively predicted homophobia (β = -.66, SE = .08, z = -8.67, p < .001). However, contrary to the hypothesis, no moderating role of positive intergroup contact in the association between authoritarianism and homophobia was observed (β = -.03, SE = .05, z = -.53 p = .593). Simple slope analyzes showed that authoritarianism positively predicted homophobia at both high and low levels of positive intergroup contact. The findings are discussed in the context of intergroup contact theory. PubDate: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Ceren AVCİL Abstract: Conservatism has enjoyed a consistently high position on the current agenda as an important part of daily life, appearing in the form of an ideology or a way of thinking. Conservatism, through its unbreakable bond with the past and its ways of articulating with other ideologies, brings to the fore varied forms of conservatism differing in line with geographical origins and environmental conditions. The gist of conservative thinking considers the past to maintain its presence today on one hand and to bear the torch for the future on the other. The present study focuses on Samiha Ayverdi, one of the pioneers of conservative thinking in Turkey. Ayverdi depicts a critical approach to daily life on the line between modernisation and conservatism and focuses on the transformations brought along by westernisation during the process of modernisation engulfing Turkey at the time. Ayverdi takes ownership of the past and takes only wary steps towards the novelties produced by the process of westernisation, as dictated by the delimitation of conservatism. Ayverdi’s perspective erodes the image of the Muslim women. In comparison between Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, Ayverdi opts for the latter as a structure dominated by a conservative identity for women. PubDate: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Mustafa ŞEHİRLİ Abstract: This article aimed to reveal the effects of four different psychological approaches for employees to be satisfied with their jobs and consequently to increase the customers' intentions to prefer them again. These four different approaches are mindfulness, embodied cognition, behavioral intention, and altruism. In the study, one concrete behavior that is thought to represent each of these four different approaches was tested. These behaviors are respectively feeling high energy (mindfulness), listening while with mouth slightly opened (embodied cognition), thinking of the self as eager to show high interest (behavioral intention), and asking questions (altruism). Theatrical applications were carried out with a total of 571 participants from three different profile groups (healthcare employees, automotive service employees and students) in an educational environment, with four different scenarios and eight different versions and the results were statistically compared and analyzed. As a result of the research, it was determined that the four behaviors in question increased employees' job satisfaction, customers' satisfaction, and repurchase intentions, but that there were no significant differences between them in terms of their effects. This research reveals that simple and individual attitude and behavior changes could lead to significant business outcomes such as customer loyalty. PubDate: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +030
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