Academicians In Turkey Research Articles

Metaphors of Academics in Turkey for Distance Education

Metaphors are important ways to show how people perceive the world and life around them. By creating metaphors, people show how they position themselves life, and that of other people, their environment, and situations in their minds and what the phenomenon, for which they create a metaphor, means to them in today's world. This has been affected by COVID-19, as conducting education on a distance basis has revealed the need to examine the perceptions of people about distance education. The perceptions of academicians about distance education are also highly important, as they directly affect the learning success and performance of students. In this study, metaphors were addressed in order to determine the perceptions of academicians in Turkey about distance education. In this study, metaphors were collected from 520 academicians working at different universities. The metaphors created by the academicians about distance education were subjected to content analysis and the data were analyzed. As a result of the study, it was determined that the academicians created positive, negative, and neutral metaphors about distance education; however, they mostly used negative metaphors.

Application of the Champion Health Belief Model to determine beliefs and behaviors of Turkish women academicians regarding breast cancer screening: A cross sectional descriptive study

BackgroundBreast cancer is an important cancer type and the most common malignancy among women in both developed and developing countries and the second leading cause of cancer death in women worldwide. This study aimed to examine the projected risk of breast cancer in Turkish women academician, determine the levels of their breast cancer screening behaviors and uncover the relationship between their health beliefs and screening behaviors.MethodsThis cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted from March to July 2018 in the province of Aydın, Turkey with a total of 200 female academicians. The data were collected using questionnaires filled out by the participants and the Turkish version of the Champion Health Belief Model Scale. Data were analyzed using t test, ANOVA, Chi-square and logistic regression performed with Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 20.ResultsThe mean age of the female academics was 36.1 ± 0.53 years. The female performing breast self-examination had higher perceived sensitivity (OR = 2.88, 95% Cl 1.32, 2.66) benefits to breast self-examination (OR = 0.90, 95% Cl 0.82, 0.99), self-efficacy (OR = 0.87, 95% Cl 0.81, 0.93) health motivation (OR = 1.74, 95% Cl 0.50, 0.90), benefit to mammography (OR = 0.97, 95% Cl 0.88, 1.08), lower barrier to mammography (OR = 1.05, 95% Cl 1.0, 1.09) than women who did not. Female academics with clinical breast examination had higher self-efficacy (OR = 0.91, 95% Cl 0.86, 0.97) and lower barrier to mammography (OR = 1.06, 95% Cl 1.02, 1.10) than women who did not. The female with take mammography had higher sensitivity (OR = 0.84, 95% Cl 0.72, 0.98), lower barrier to breast self-examination (OR = 1.08, 95% Cl 1.02, 1.15) and lower barrier to mammography (OR = 1.09, 95% Cl 1.04, 1.14) than female who did not.ConclusionsFemale academicians in Turkey exhibit positive attitudes towards breast self-examination, clinical breast examination and mammography as they have higher perceived sensitivity against breast cancer, self-efficacy and fewer barriers. Long-term community-based programs should be extended to different groups of women from a variety of socio-demographic environments.

Academicians in Turkey: An Evaluation of Current Status of Academic Staff in Higher Education

The history of Turkish higher education dates back to Turkish nations of 1000 years ago. The beginning of higher education institutions are accepted as madrasahs that continue its existence during the Ottoman period. After the foundation of the Turkish republic, rapid changes and developments have been observed in the higher education like in all fields. Since this period of time, Turkish higher education institutions have been grouped in two categories, which are universities producing information-knowledge and vocational schools training people oriented with employment. Considering the both types of these institutions, the aim of Turkish higher education system is to sustain manpower considering the needs of the nation and the public; provide education and training facilities based on the secondary education; maintain the quality and quantity of scientific researches under the control of universities. In this context, the purpose of this study is to present the certain dimensions of Turkish higher education system, which are academicianship, current facts related to academicianship, the stages in academic career, achievements in academy and the status of women academicians in Turkey. Related documents have been analyzed and the current status of Turkish higher education system has been discussed by concluding the results.

The Relation between Machiavellianism, Organizational Commitment and Ethical Leadership: A Field Research on Academicians in Turkey

Organizational commitment and ethical leadership practices are regarded as crucial in the process of achieving organizational goals in modern organizational structures and as variables that need to be enhanced within administrative policies of organizations. According to literature, the Machiavellian characteristics of the employees typically stand out as an unwanted phenomenon in organizations. The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between Machiavellianism, organizational commitment and ethical leadership in universities. A questionnaire was conducted on 385 academic staff serving in universities around Turkey and frequency, t-test, ANOVA and regression methods were utilized in the analysis of the research data. According to research findings, a positive relationship was found between the continuance commitment and normative commitment which are among sub-dimensions of organizational commitment and Machiavellianism tendency. It was observed that ethical leadership was positively related to all sub-dimensions of organizational commitment, that is, ethical leadership behaviors were an important determinant in terms of organizational commitment. No relation was found between the tendency of Machiavellianism and ethical leadership behaviors.

Evaluating the nursing academicians in Turkey in the scope of Web of Science: scientometrics of original articles

Scientometrics, bibliometrics, webometrics, and informetrics are specific research fields that cover statistical analyses of a particular research field which summarize the information related to topics handled during a particular time period; authors, citations and their demographic characteristics; network relationships among the authors. This study, which can be classified in both scientometrics and webometrics, aims at revealing the current situation and the performance of academicians working in the nursing field in Turkey through basic and advanced data analyses conducted on their published original articles in a Web of Science. The raw data including the details of the publications were first parsed into a novel database where the authors’ affiliations were stored with respect to the data obtained from the website of the Turkish Higher Education Council. Over the integrated database, particular tables were generated to show the summary of the academic and demographic distributions of the publications. Specific statistical tests were applied to reveal the relationships and differences. Furthermore, analyses were carried out within text mining on authors, titles, keywords, abstracts, and references in order to examine the contents and references of the articles included in the data set to reveal keyword densities, particular topics, and co-authorship and citation networks. One of the challenging part of this research was the dataset collection and cleansing process, because of the special letters of Turkish Language, e.g. c, s, o, u. This issue was resolved when the representation pattern of the letters were discovered and queries were executed with respect to those patterns. This study has provided meaningful findings to both the field of nursing the scientometrics, since it reveals the academic performance in a particular field and systematically presents the current situation by examining the relevant studies in an analytical perspective.

The Effect of Job Resources on Work Engagement - A Study on Academicians in Turkey

Making research and publishing these researches at academic journals is accepted as a differential feature in the academic world. Previous studies Show the evidence that work engagement is a significant predictor of performance. In this study, the relationship between work engagement, which is assumed as substitute for performance, and job resources is examined. At least one university from each city of Turkey is selected and academicians of those universities are sent 20- items survey via internet. 422 academicians is reached by using convenience sampling method. Job resources are subject to second order confirmatory factor analysis. Further, both for job resources and work engagement discriminant validity, convergent validity and composite reliability test are implemented. The results are analyzed with structural equation modelling. The results indicate that, job resources (autonomy, social support, coaching, opportunity for personal development and task significant) need to be enhanced in order to develop work engagement of Turkish academicians.

Career Obstacles Faced by Female Nurse Academicians in Turkey.

Most academicians in the nursing field are women, and they face many difficulties throughout the course of their careers for various reasons. This study aims to determine the career difficulties faced by female academicians in the nursing field. This study is descriptive, sectional, and comparative. The study was conducted in cooperation with female academicians in the nursing field (n = 132) from 11 different nursing schools in Turkey's Eastern Anatolia Region providing undergraduate education in nursing. Data were collected using the Female Academicians' Career Obstacles Scale. Ethics committee and required official permissions were obtained from the relevant institutions. Data analysis was conducted in an electronic environment using SPSS for Windows 22.0 package software for statistics. In terms of research outcomes, it was determined that the most significant obstacles reported by female academicians were "organizational culture and politics" (M = 43.92 ± 12.64) and "playing multiple roles" (M = 31.35 ± 10.15); the most insignificant obstacles were reported to be "organizational conditions" (M = 21.43 ± 7.06) and "stereotypical prejudices" (M = 20.44 ± 6.31). Other obstacles mentioned by the academicians were working as a research assistant with a bachelor's degree, being married with children, studying with young and inexperienced academicians, and serving as department head. Organizational culture and politics in particular should be reviewed at educational institutions from the perspective of career obstacles, and these principles should be rearranged so that they constitute a supportive work environment.

Exploring the Accounting History Research in Turkey: Publishing Patterns of Academicians

The aim of the study is to determine how much interest the accounting academicians have in the history of their field. To analyze this interest we reviewed the academic research of the accounting academicians in Turkey on accounting history. The study explores publishing patterns in Turkish accounting academicians in academic journals and the thesis submitted in Turkish Universities on accounting history. In the study we analyzed and reported the recent development of the accounting history research in Turkey in the period 2000 to 2013. In the study we implemented a content analysis for academic articles. Firstly a comprehensive literature review has been done to find the accounting history articles published by the Turkish academicians in the last decade. We found 74 accounting history articles published in national and international academic journals by the Turkish academicians. The analysis of the articles examined the patterns of authorship, the most published authors, institutional affiliations of authors, author gender, the most published journals, subject areas, and period covered by the articles. In the second part of the study is a content analysis for the master and doctoral thesis on accounting history in Turkish Universities is provided. We searched the theses in the thesis database of The Council of Higher Education of Turkey. We limited the research on accounting history thesis, and we found only 11 theses on accounting history. The analysis of the theses examined the authorship, institutions thesis submitted, advisor of the thesis, subject areas, and period covered by the theses. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4p323

Approaches and Teaching Methods in Breathing and Vibrato Technique in Flute Education

Vibrato is one of the main techniques which gives depth, colour, and even vitality to the instrument it is played with. Using the vibrato technique accurately and efficiently requires a thorough recognition of the musical piece which is played, knowledge about the musical style, being a good listener and a good researcher. The students who receive flute education at university level have certain difficulties when making use of the breathing technique and the vibrato technique. The aim of the present study is to analyze different teaching methods and approaches which are applied for the accurate and efficient use of the breathing and the vibrato technique. In this study, literature review and survey methods have been applied. Academic articles, books, journals, thesis, and online resources were reviewed within the scope of literature review. Based on the data which were obtained from the “Flute Pedagogy Survey”, the opinions of the academicians in Turkey and the USA have been evaluated. At the end of the study, it has been observed that many famous flute performers and academicians have different points of views about the breathing and the vibrato techniques. It has been concluded that one of the common views that the flute instructors both in Turkey and the USA share is the necessity of studying the vibrato technique as a separate subject. They also think that the musical work which is played could show variety according to the period it belongs to. In the conclusions part of the study, the vibrato technique and different approaches in teaching methods have been analyzed comparatively and proposals for probable problems that may emerge during the teaching process have been developed.

The Effect of Job Resources on Work Engagement: A Study on Academicians in Turkey

Conducting research and publishing these research papers in academic journals is an accepted norm in the academic world. Previous studies prove that work engagement is a significant predictor of performance. Herein, the relationship between work engagement, which is assumed as a substitute for performance, and job resources is examined. At least one university from each Turkish city was selected and academicians of those universities were sent a 20-item survey online. Four hundred and twenty two academicians were tested using the convenience sampling method. Job resources were subject to second-order confirmatory factor analysis. Furthermore, both for job resources and work engagement, discriminant validity, convergent validity, and composite reliability tests were conducted. The results were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results indicate that job resources (autonomy, social support, coaching, opportunity for personal development, and task significance) need to be enhanced to develop work engagement by Turkish academicians.

Optimism Syndrome in Business Life: A Research of Optimism About Academicians in Turkey

In recent years the optimism which paid importance by the firms has been most examined. It is a simple definition of optimism is a generalized expectancy for positive future outcomes that seems to have adaptive and beneficial effects. This study aims to describe the level of optimism of academicians who have been working at Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Dumlupınar University. The study also analyzes the differences in optimism level according to demographic factors. Descriptive research model has been used in the study. Firstly, sample characteristics and optimism level of participants were exposed and T-test was used to analyze mean differences according to demographic factors for testing hypotheses of study. According to results, it can be stated that optimism level of academicians is high degree. The results of the study were coherent with the literature.

Life Satisfaction Among Academicians: An Empirical Study on the Universities of Turkey

The purpose of this study is to examine the levels of life satisfaction among academicians in Turkey and to investigate the effects of demographics on levels of life satisfaction among academicians. A questionnaire-based study was conducted in 648 academicians working in the Universities of Turkey. Data were collected using Diener et al.’s Life Satisfaction Scale. The life satisfaction levels of the academicians were found to be moderately high in the study. The results of the study indicated that professors have a higher level of life satisfaction as compared to assistant professors, instructors and research assistants. Professors have the highest level of life satisfaction among the all academicians. Among the demographic variables, gender, age, income level, length of service in present university, length of service in higher education, and abroad experience were significantly related to life satisfaction. On the other hand, marital status was not significantly related to life satisfaction of the academicians.

Nursing academicians' attitudes towards work life and their personality traits

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between attitudes of nursing academicians towards job and organization and their personality traits. The research included 287 nursing academicians who worked in 14 School of Nurses in the Universities of Turkey. A descriptive information form, Job and Organization Related Attitude Scale and Temperament and Character Inventory were used as data collection tools. It has been determined that attitudes of nursing academicians towards job and organization and their personality traits depended upon socio-economic status, working year, academic title, the temperament feature of novelty seeking and persistence, and the character feature of self-directedness and cooperativeness.

Enfermagem na Turquia: seus avanços e desafios

Enfermagem na Turquia: seus avanços e desafios

Loss Assessment Study for the Zeytinburnu District of Istanbul Using Maeviz-Istanbul (HAZTURK)

The two important earthquakes that occurred in Turkey in 1999 have increased concerns on what would happen if a major earthquake affects Istanbul again. Alarming estimates reveal that Istanbul will probably be exposed to a devastating earthquake, with a magnitude between 6.5 and 7.7, in the next 25–30 years. The necessity of comprehensive plans for seismic mitigation, and response and recovery tasks after catastrophic events, has encouraged researchers to develop scientifically advanced tools to conduct loss assessment analyses. After the 1999 earthquakes hit Kocaeli and Düzce, several seismic loss assessment studies were performed for the city of Istanbul; many of them were carried out by the most important academicians in Turkey. However, due to the rapid changes in the exposed inventory of the city, those studies were losing accuracy. This article presents a seismic loss assessment system that can easily reanalyze earthquake scenarios including updates in the exposed inventory. This software can be used by government decision makers and disaster management agencies. In the analysis described in this article, the inventory data for the Zeytinburnu District is updated and visualized by using the rapid visual screening of buildings. Results from a loss assessment for the Zeytinburnu District are presented and compared with results from previous studies. The loss assessment analysis provide estimates of building damage, retrofit cost, economic loss, fiscal impact, and cost-benefit analysis.

Work Related Factors That Affect Burnout Among Accounting And Finance Academicians

Bu calismanin amaci, Turkiye’deki akademisyenlerin tukenmislik duzeylerini olcmek ve akademisyenlerin tukenmislik duzeylerini etkileyen faktorleri arastirmaktir. Veriler, toplam 78 kamu universitesinin ve ozel universitenin Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakultelerinde muhasebe - finansman anabilim dalinda gorev yapan 160 akademisyenden, sosyo-demografik anket formu, Maslach Tukenmislik Envanteri ve “is ve is cevresi” olcegi kullanilarak toplanmistir. Verilerin analizinde tanimlayici istatistik (ortalama ve standart sapma), korelasyon analizi, faktor analizi ve lojistik regresyon analizi kullanilmistir. Calismada, genel tukenmislik ve tukenmislik alt boyutlarinin skorlari, diger calismalarin sonuclarina gore daha dusuk bulunmustur. Akademisyenlerin tukenmislik duzeylerini etkileme olasiligi bulunan 12 maddeli “is ve is cevresi” olcegineuygulanan faktor analizi sonucunda, dort temel faktor ortaya cikmistir. Bu faktorler; is cevresi, idari isyuku, akademik isyuku ve ilerleme ve degerlemedir. Bu faktorlerin akademisyenlerin genel tukenmislik duzeyleri ve tukenmisligin alt boyutlari uzerindeki etkilerini belirlemek amaciyla, lojistik regresyon analizi kullanilmistir. Lojistik regresyon analizinin sonuclari, tukenmislik duzeyi uzerinde en fazla etkiye is cevresi faktorunun sahip oldugunu, bunu, idari isyuku, akademik isyuku ve ilerleme ve degerleme faktorlerinin izledigini gostermistir.

The burnout in nursing academicians in Turkey

The purpose of this study was to determine the level of burnout in nursing academicians in Turkey and to investigate the variables which are strongly correlated with the burnout nursing education settings in Turkey. The sample of the study consisted of the nursing academicians working in the schools of nursing at the different universities in Turkey. Although the total number of nursing academicians in Turkey was 179, the subjects who agreed to participate in the research was 135. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) was used to measure burnout, after having been statistically tested for its validity and reliability in nursing education settings in Turkey. The multiple regression analysis was carried out in order to determine the main variables correlated with burnout, namely “the predictors” of each of the three components (emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP), personal accomplishment (PA)) of burnout. The results indicated that the most significant predictor of EE was work-setting satisfaction, of DP was job pressure, and of PA was job satisfaction in nursing education settings in Turkey. Finally, these findings were compared with of those previous studies in the field.