Social Adaptation Scale: Scale Development Study

In this study it was aimed to develop a valid and reliable “Social Adaptation Scale” in order to determine the level of social adaptation of children who study in sixth and seventh grade in secondary school. The sample of the study consisted of 668 sixth and seventh grade secondary school children in Erzincan who were specified with simple random sampling according to the number of items. During the development process of the measurement tool, the content, structure and measure were validated. With this aim, the form was sent to experts in order to get their opinions. Based on experts’ feedback, item content validity ratios were determined. Items with content validity ratio under .75 were deleted. Self-Efficacy for Studying Scale is explained 38.38 % of the total varianceAccording to the analysis results it was concluded that the scale consisted of 55 items and sole factor, also the validity of content and measure was provided. The reliability of the measurement tool was calculated via Cronbach Alpha, one of the internal consistency methods, and a very high reliability 0.95 was reached. It can be said that the developed scale is a valid and reliable tool that can be used to measure the social cohesion of children in the sixth and seventh grades of secondary schools.