Abstract:The major purpose of this study was to create a path analysis model of academic success in a group of university students, which included the variables of academic confidence and psychological capital with a mediator variable -academic coping. 400 undergraduates from Marmara University and Istanbul Commerce University who were in sophomore, junior and senior years participated in the study. The Academic Behavioral Confidence Scale, the Academic Coping Strategies Scale and the Psychological Capital Test Battery composed of the Academic Self-Efficacy Scale, the Life Orientation Test, the Hope Scale and the Resilience Scale were utilized to disclose the predictive roles of these variables on academic success. The results of path analyses showed that academic confidence and psychological capital had pivotal direct and indirect effects on academic success via the mediator variableacademic coping. Academic coping had also a direct influence on academic success. The findings of the study are essential for telling both vocational counselors and educational psychologists the fact that career interventions for university students should consider the non-cognitive factors on their academic achievements.

ÖzGeleceğin sağlık profesyonelleri olacak hekim, diş hekimi, eczacı, hemşire ve ebe adaylarının ve ilgili fakültelerdeki öğretim elemanlarının sigara içme alışkanlıkları ve nikotin bağımlılıklarının ölçülmesi, sigaranın öğrencilere ve öğretim elemanlarına durağan maliyetinin hesaplanması amaçlanmıştır. Çalışma kapsamına Marmara Üniversitesi Tıp, Diş Hekimliği, Eczacılık Fakülteleri ve Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi Hemşirelik-Ebelik Bölümü'ndeki öğrenciler ile öğretim elamanları dâhil edilmiştir. Veri toplama aracı olarak Fagerstrom nikotin bağımlılık testi (FNBT), sosyo-demografik ve maliyet ölçmeye yarayan sorular uygulanmıştır. Öğrencilerin %22'sinde ve öğretim elemanlarının %36,8'inde sigara alışkanlığı saptanmıştır. İki prevalans arasında anlamlı fark vardır (t=11,08; p<0,05). Öğrencilerin FNBT puanı ortalaması 4,1±1,9 iken öğretim üyelerinin FNBT puanı ortalaması 6,6±2,3 dur. Her iki ortalama arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı fark vardır (t=8,37; p<0,05). Yapılan hesaplamalara göre öğrenci yıllık gelirinin 1/4'ünü, öğretim elemanı ise 1/5'ini sigaraya ayırmaktadır. Bu çalışmada sadece durağan maliyet hesaplanmıştır; dolaylı maliyet hesaplanmamıştır. Sağlık alanında eğitim veren ve öğrencilere örnek olan öğretim elemanlarının sigara bırakmayı teşvik edici çalışmalara destek verebilmeleri için öncelikle kendilerinin sigarayı bırakmaları gereklidir. Anahtar Sözcükler: Sigara, Maliyet, Fagerstrom nikotin bağımlılık testi ABSTRACTIt was aimed in this study to quantify smoking habits and nicotine dependency of future health care professionals such as doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and midwives, as well as academic members of associated faculties and to calculate the economic steady cost of smoking. Students in the faculties of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy, and Faculty of Health Sciences Department of Nursing and Midwifery and faculty members in Marmara University were included in the study. As a means of data collection, Fagerstrom test for nicotine dependence (FTND), and questionnaire including questions about socio-demographic data and cost of smoking were performed. Prevalence of smoking was found 36,89% for faculty members and 22,02% for students; there was significant difference between these two groups (t=11,08; p<0,05). The mean FTND score of the students and faculty members was 4,1±1,9, and 6,6±2,3, respectively. There was also statistically significant difference between the mean FTND scores of two groups (t=8,37; p<0,05). According to calculations, students and faculty members spends 1/4 and 1/5 -of their income to smoking, respectively. Only steady costs were calculated in this study; indirect costs of smoking were not included. Teaching staff of health care education like a medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing and midwifery in university need to quit smoking themselves in order to encourage smoking cessation. This study is unique for investigation smoking status students and trainers at the university level. This is also only survey that measures the cost of nicotine dependency and sm...

The Academic Coping Strategies Scale (the ACS Scale) developed by Sullivan in 2010 is a pivotal screening tool for counselors and educators to understand undergraduates' handling mechanisms in a tough academic context. This study presents the psychometric features of Turkish version of the scale. 555 undergraduates from three universities in Istanbul participated in the study. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses advocated a three factor solution like the original scale. Criterion validity was examined through the variables -academic self-efficacy, and learning, performance-approach and performance-avoidance goal tendencies-. The results indicated academic coping strategies had significant correlations with them. Test-retest study yielded consistent scores. These findings point that the Turkish ACS Scale is a credible measurement providing great opportunities for scrutinizing undergraduates' coping patterns utilized for a demanding educational context.CFA was performed to gauge whether three factor model of the original ACS Scale would be obtained from the data of Turkish sample. Model fit indexes used in CFA were X 2 /df (Chi Square / Degree of Freedom), CFI (Comparative Fit Index), SRMR (Standardized Root Mean Square Residuals), TLI (Tucker-Lewis Index) and RMSEA (Root Mean Square Error of Approximation). They were tested based on the acceptable values specified by Tabachnick and Fidell (2007), and Schumacker and Lomax (2010). The results showed the Turkish model with 34 items was not compatible with the initial model of the ACS Scale, ( 2 (492) = 1759.76, p < .001; GFI=.83; CFI=.93; SRMR=.07; RMSEA=.08), advocating the outcomes of EFA.Then, the Turkish ACS Scale with 33 items was tested via CFA. Model-1 and Model-2 of Turkish ACS Scale are presented in Table 4. When the modification indices in Model 1 were explored, there were noteworthy correlations between item 4 and item 20 (r=.46), and between item 5 and

The aim of the present study was to figure out whether university students' learning approaches were shaped via their achievement goal orientations, academic self-efficacy and hope or not. The other objective was to examine if these psychological constructs varied in accordance with the demographic variables including gender, age and class level. 332 undergraduates from two different universities who were in the year of junior and senior participated in the study. The Achievement Goal Orientations Scale, the Academic Self-Efficacy Scale, the Dispositional Hope Scale and the Demographic Form were utilized to reveal the predictive power of these constructs on their learning attitudes measured by the Revised Two-Factor Study Process Questionnaire. Multiple linear regression analysis indicated that learning goal orientation was a pivotal predictor of both deep and surface approach to learning. Academic self-efficacy and hope were the crucial precursors of deep approach while performance-avoidance goal inclination was a considerable predictor of surface approach. Independent samples t-test analysis displayed that the female undergraduates were superior to the male ones in terms of the learning goal tendency. And the students (20 to 22 aged) demonstrated higher scores on the same variable than the other ones (23 to 25 aged). On the basis of class level, there were no significant differences in the scores of achievement goal orientations, academic self-efficacy, hope and learning approaches. The results pointed out the fact that such concepts pertinent to an undergraduate's academic performance could be viewed as distinctive features engendering different learning attitudes toward scholastic training.

The main purpose of this research is to determine the personality traits of university students predicted by decisionmaking styles and creative thinking skills at a meaningful level. Whether decision-making styles, personality traits and creative thinking skills show a significant difference according to gender is also the sub-objective of the study. 419 university students attending in different universities in Istanbul participated in the research. Personal information form, Rational and Intuitive Decision Making Scale, Marmara Creative Thinking Disposition Scale and Adjectives Based Personality Test were used as data collection tools. In the analysis of the data, independent t test, Pearson Moment correlation coefficients and multiple linear regression analysis were used. According to result female students think more intuitively than male students and rational thinking style does not differ according to gender. It has been found that men are more courageous and curious in terms of creative thinking. In terms of personality traits female students showed more personality traits of emotional instability, extraversion, openness to experience, and compliance than male students. It was concluded that openness to experience, from personality traits, is a significant predictor of rational and intuitive decision styles. Lastly it was found that personality traits of extraversion, openness to experience, and emotional instability are significant predictors of creative thinking.