The Validity and Reliability of Turkish Version of The Ostracism Experience Scale for Adolescents

This study investigated the validity and reliability of the Turkish Version of the Ostracism Experience Scale for Adolescents (Gilman, Carter-Sowell, DeWall, Adams, Carboni, 2013). The sample of study consists of 306 students. Results of confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that the elevenitems loaded on two factors (ignored and excluded) and the two-dimensional model was well fit (x²=80.64, df=41, RMSEA=.056, NFI=.96, NNFI=.97, CFI=.98, IFI=.98, RFI=.95, GFI=.95, SRMR=.048). Factor loadings ranged from .71 to .88 and the corrected item-total correlations of OES-A ranged from .51 to .70. Internal consistency reliability coefficients were .93 for ignored subscale, .90 for excluded subscale, and .89 for overall scale. These results demonstrate that this scale is a valid and reliable instrument.