This page has only limited features, please log in for full access.
The aim of the research is to measure the extent of piracy among young adults and to relate this phenomenon to variables, such as values and time orientation. The research fits into the risk paradigm of cyber research. The research was carried out in Northern Cyprus, a country with a persistently high rate of digital piracy. The research involved 318 young adults (Mean Age: 20.9, SD: 2.47). The research process was conducted through the triangulation of three questionnaires: Piracy Risk Scale, Time Perspective Inventory, and the Values Scale. Based on the data collected, it was noted that piracy is not a rare phenomenon among young people (similar to other e-risks), and it is most common for files related to entertainment to be systematically downloaded. Digital piracy is linked to the level of digital competence, as well as hedonistic and fatalistic attitudes to time and values such as materialism and sense of honour. Despite technological developments maximising the legal circulation of cultural and other digital content, piracy has still not been completely eliminated.
Fatih Bayraktar; Łukasz Tomczyk. Digital Piracy among Young Adults: The Role of Values and Time Perspectives. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9140 .
AMA StyleFatih Bayraktar, Łukasz Tomczyk. Digital Piracy among Young Adults: The Role of Values and Time Perspectives. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):9140.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFatih Bayraktar; Łukasz Tomczyk. 2021. "Digital Piracy among Young Adults: The Role of Values and Time Perspectives." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 9140.
Hope is a future-oriented reasoning that influences psychological assets of individuals. A hopeful standing towards the future can positively influence individual well-being. Different standings in terms of hopefulness may create variations in psychological assets of people. In the current study, we examined the associations of decisiveness, self-efficacy, curiosity and self-construals with hopefulness. A total of 278 senior university students were recruited for the study from Eastern Mediterranean University in Famagusta, North Cyprus. Participants filled six questionnaires; the Beck Hopelessness Scale, the Independent and Interdependent Self-Construal Scale, Multi-Domain Decisiveness Scale, Curiosity and Exploration Inventory II, the Dispositional Hope Scale and the General Self-Efficacy Scale. The data was analyzed by hierarchical multiple regression analysis on SPSS 23 software program. The results indicated that self-efficacy and decisiveness significantly predicted hopefulness, while curiosity did not predict hopefulness and only independent self-construal had the predictive effect on hopefulness. Based on these findings, the emerging adulthood nature of the study sample was discussed, and further recommendations were presented.
Hakan Remzi Öztekin; Fatih Bayraktar. How Decisiveness, Self-Efficacy, Curiosity and Independent and Interdependent Self-Construals Are Related to Future Hopefulness among Senior Students. Behavioral Sciences 2019, 9, 154 .
AMA StyleHakan Remzi Öztekin, Fatih Bayraktar. How Decisiveness, Self-Efficacy, Curiosity and Independent and Interdependent Self-Construals Are Related to Future Hopefulness among Senior Students. Behavioral Sciences. 2019; 9 (12):154.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHakan Remzi Öztekin; Fatih Bayraktar. 2019. "How Decisiveness, Self-Efficacy, Curiosity and Independent and Interdependent Self-Construals Are Related to Future Hopefulness among Senior Students." Behavioral Sciences 9, no. 12: 154.
İnternet’e bağlanan her birey, fırsatlar yanında, çevrimiçi risklere de açık hale gelebilmektedir. Gelişim dönemleri söz konusu olduğunda ise hem fırsatlara hem de risk almaya en yatkın yaş gruplarının geç çocukluk ve ergenlik dönemindeki bireyler olduğu ortaya çıkmaktadır. Çocuk ve ergenlerde İnternet fırsat ve risklerini şekillendiren en önemli etmenlerin başında ise ebeveyn aracılık stratejileri gelmektedir. Bu araştırmanın amacı Türkiye’de ve Avrupa’da yaşayan Türk kökenli çocuk ve ergenlerin deneyimledikleri çevrimiçi risklerle, algıladıkları ebeveyn aracılık stratejilerinin karşılaştırmalı olarak incelenmesidir.Araştırmanın örneklemi 25 Avrupa ülkesindeki çocuk/ergenlerin ve ebeveynlerin İnternet’in güvenli ve riskli kullanımıyla ilgili deneyimlerini incelemeyi amaçlayan EU Kids Online II (Avrupa Çevrimiçi Çocuklar II) projesi veri tabanına dayanmaktadır. Türkiye örneklemi 962 kişiden (513 erkek, 449 kadın; Ort.yaş= 12.19, S=2.15), Avrupa örneklemi ise 182 kişiden (103 kadın, 79 erkek; Ort.yaş=12.70, S=2.30) oluşmaktadır.Araştırma bulguları Türkiye ve Avrupa’da ebeveyn aracılık stratejileriyle çevrimiçi riskler arasındaki ilişkilerin farklılaştığını göstermektedir. Türkiye’de aktif aracılık stratejileri çevrimiçi risklerle pozitif yönde ilişkiliyken, bu ilişki Avrupa örnekleminde anlamsızdır. Kısıtlayıcı aracılık stratejileri ise Avrupa örnekleminde çevrimiçi risklerle ters yönde ilişkiliyken, Türkiye örnekleminde bu ilişki anlamsız bulunmuştur. Üçüncü bir ebeveyn aracılık stratejisi boyutu olarak değerlendirilen ebeveyn izlemesi ise iki örneklemde de farklı şekilde aracı değişken olarak rol oynamaktadır. Bu boyut Türkiye örnekleminde aktif aracılık stratejisiyle çevrimiçi riskler arasında pozitif yönde bir ilişkiyle aracı değişkenken, Avrupa örnekleminde kısıtlayıcı aracılık stratejisiyle çevrimiçi riskler arasında ters yönde bir ilişkiyle aracı değişken rolü üstlenmektedir.
Fatih Bayraktar. Online Risks and Parental Mediation Strategies Comparison of Turkish Children/Adolescents Who Live In Turkey and Europe. TED EĞİTİM VE BİLİM 2017, 42, 1 .
AMA StyleFatih Bayraktar. Online Risks and Parental Mediation Strategies Comparison of Turkish Children/Adolescents Who Live In Turkey and Europe. TED EĞİTİM VE BİLİM. 2017; 42 (190):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFatih Bayraktar. 2017. "Online Risks and Parental Mediation Strategies Comparison of Turkish Children/Adolescents Who Live In Turkey and Europe." TED EĞİTİM VE BİLİM 42, no. 190: 1.
Meeting online contacts offline can be considered both as a risk-taking behavior and as an opportunity to expand one's social circle. This study distinguishes between specific types of meetings, whether with ‘friends of friends’, ‘complete strangers’ or ‘both’, and examines the role of individual psychological factors (sensation seeking, selfefficacy and psychological difficulties) together with structural societal factors (agentic and communal life strategies - locus of control and importance of friends) while controlling for age, gender and personal Internet use. Data from the Euro Kids Online II project dealing with children and adolescents who reported being in touch via Internet with people whom they didn't know personally and indicated whether or not they had met them offline were compounded with data from the European Values Study for societal factors and analyzed through two-level multinomial logistic regression. The odds of engaging in meeting online contacts offline increase with higher sensation seeking, self-efficacy, psychological difficulties, and age, and decrease with higher importance of friends. Types of meetings were found to vary with age and level of sensation-seeking. The results are discussed with regard to risk-taking in adolescence, safety of meeting types, models of sociability, and personal agency.
Fatih Bayraktar; Monica Barbovschi; Vera Kontrikova. Risky sociability and personal agency-offline meetings with online contacts among European children and adolescents. Children and Youth Services Review 2016, 70, 78 -83.
AMA StyleFatih Bayraktar, Monica Barbovschi, Vera Kontrikova. Risky sociability and personal agency-offline meetings with online contacts among European children and adolescents. Children and Youth Services Review. 2016; 70 ():78-83.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFatih Bayraktar; Monica Barbovschi; Vera Kontrikova. 2016. "Risky sociability and personal agency-offline meetings with online contacts among European children and adolescents." Children and Youth Services Review 70, no. : 78-83.
The authors' aim was to investigate gender and cultural differences in the attributions used to determine causality for hypothetical public and private face-to-face and cyber victimization scenarios among 3,432 adolescents (age range = 11-15 years; 49% girls) from China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, and the United States, while accounting for their individualism and collectivism. Adolescents completed a questionnaire on cultural values and read four hypothetical victimization scenarios, including public face-to-face victimization, public cyber victimization, private face-to-face victimization, and private cyber victimization. After reading the scenarios, they rated different attributions (i.e., self-blame, aggressor-blame, joking, normative, conflict) according to how strongly they believed the attributions explained why victimization occurred. Overall, adolescents reported that they would utilize the attributions of self-blame, aggressor-blame, and normative more for public forms of victimization and face-to-face victimization than for private forms of victimization and cyber victimization. Differences were found according to gender and country of origin as well. Such findings underscore the importance of delineating between different forms of victimization when examining adolescents' attributions.
Michelle F. Wright; Takuya Yanagida; Ikuko Aoyama; Lenka Dědková; Zheng Li; Shanmukh V. Kamble; Fatih Bayraktar; Anna Ševčíková; Shruti Soudi; Hana Macháčková; Li Lei; Chang Shu. Differences in Attributions for Public and Private Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization Among Adolescents in China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, and the United States. The Journal of Genetic Psychology 2016, 178, 1 -14.
AMA StyleMichelle F. Wright, Takuya Yanagida, Ikuko Aoyama, Lenka Dědková, Zheng Li, Shanmukh V. Kamble, Fatih Bayraktar, Anna Ševčíková, Shruti Soudi, Hana Macháčková, Li Lei, Chang Shu. Differences in Attributions for Public and Private Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization Among Adolescents in China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, and the United States. The Journal of Genetic Psychology. 2016; 178 (1):1-14.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMichelle F. Wright; Takuya Yanagida; Ikuko Aoyama; Lenka Dědková; Zheng Li; Shanmukh V. Kamble; Fatih Bayraktar; Anna Ševčíková; Shruti Soudi; Hana Macháčková; Li Lei; Chang Shu. 2016. "Differences in Attributions for Public and Private Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization Among Adolescents in China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, and the United States." The Journal of Genetic Psychology 178, no. 1: 1-14.
Although the research on cyberbullying has increased dramatically in recent years, still little is known about how cyberbullying participant groups (i.e., cyberbullies, cybervictims, and cyberbully-victims) differ from one another. This study aims to discriminate between these groups at an individual and relational level by controlling for age and gender. Self-control, offline aggression, and self-esteem are analyzed as individual-level variables. Parental attachment and peer rejection are involved as relational-level variables. A total of 2,092 Czech adolescents aged 12 to 18 were enrolled from a random sample of 34 primary and secondary schools located in the South Moravian region of the Czech Republic. Discriminant function analyses indicated that the participant groups are discriminated by two functions. The first function increases the separation between cyberbullies and cyberbully-victims from cybervictims, indicating that cyberbullies and cyberbully-victims are similar to each other in terms of low self-control, offline aggression, and gender, and have higher scores on measures of low self-esteem and offline aggression. However, cyberbully-victims had the highest scores on these measures. The second function discriminates between all three groups, which indicates that those variables included in the second function (i.e., parental attachment, peer rejection, self-esteem, and age) distinguish all three involved groups.
Fatih Bayraktar; Hana Machackova; Lenka Dedkova; Alena Cerna; Anna Ševčíková. Cyberbullying. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 2014, 30, 3192 -3216.
AMA StyleFatih Bayraktar, Hana Machackova, Lenka Dedkova, Alena Cerna, Anna Ševčíková. Cyberbullying. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 2014; 30 (18):3192-3216.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFatih Bayraktar; Hana Machackova; Lenka Dedkova; Alena Cerna; Anna Ševčíková. 2014. "Cyberbullying." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 30, no. 18: 3192-3216.
After the Internet Revolution, people have started to spend most of their everyday time online carrying out virtual activities. A limited number of studies tried to answer whether virtual activities match our real-world (RW) activities. Moreover, to our knowledge, there was no study that dealt with these interrelations between virtual and RW activities among the pathological and nonpathological users of the Internet (i.e. PIUs and NPIUs). The primary aim of this study was to fill this gap and to investigate the correlations between virtual-world (VW) and RW activities among PIUs and NPIUs. The secondary aim was to examine the perceptions of the Internet and motivations to go online for PIUs and NPIUs. The third aim was to compare virtual and RW activities across gender and age groups. The results indicated that correlations between most of the activities in RW and VW were high among men and women, among age groups, and also among PIUs and NPUs. However, beyond these similarities, perceptions of the Internet and motivations to browse into VW were differed among PIUs and NPIUs. In other words, PIUs, but not NPIUs, perceived VW activities more gratified and had motivations to go online for gratified functions.
Fatih Bayraktar; Hasan Amca. Interrelations Between Virtual-World and Real-World Activities: Comparison of Genders, Age Groups, and Pathological and Nonpathological Internet Users. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 2012, 15, 263 -269.
AMA StyleFatih Bayraktar, Hasan Amca. Interrelations Between Virtual-World and Real-World Activities: Comparison of Genders, Age Groups, and Pathological and Nonpathological Internet Users. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 2012; 15 (5):263-269.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFatih Bayraktar; Hasan Amca. 2012. "Interrelations Between Virtual-World and Real-World Activities: Comparison of Genders, Age Groups, and Pathological and Nonpathological Internet Users." Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 15, no. 5: 263-269.
Peer bullying has been studied since the 1970s. Therefore, a vast literature has accumulated about the various predictors of bullying. However, to date there has been no study which has combined individual-, peer-, parental-, teacher-, and school-related predictors of bullying within a model. In this sense, the main aim of this study was to test a multifactor model of bullying among adolescents in North Cyprus and Turkey. A total of 1,052 adolescents (554 girls, 498 boys) aged between 13 and 18 ( M = 14.7, SD = 1.17) were recruited from North Cyprus and Turkey. Before testing the multifactor models, the measurement models were tested according to structural equation modeling propositions. Both models indicated that the psychological climate of the school, teacher attitudes within classroom, peer relationships, parental acceptance-rejection, and individual social competence factors had significant direct effects on bullying behaviors. Goodness-of-fit indexes indicated that the proposed multifactor model fitted both data well. The strongest predictors of bullying were the psychological climate of the school following individual social competence factors and teacher attitudes within classroom in both samples. All of the latent variables explained 44% and 51% of the variance in bullying in North Cyprus and Turkey, respectively.
Fatih Bayraktar. Bullying Among Adolescents in North Cyprus and Turkey: Testing a Multifactor Model. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 2011, 27, 1040 -1065.
AMA StyleFatih Bayraktar. Bullying Among Adolescents in North Cyprus and Turkey: Testing a Multifactor Model. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 2011; 27 (6):1040-1065.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFatih Bayraktar. 2011. "Bullying Among Adolescents in North Cyprus and Turkey: Testing a Multifactor Model." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 27, no. 6: 1040-1065.