İbn Haldun Üniversitesi Kurumsal Akademik Arşivi
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Humor in therapy: Assessing demand for integration
(Bilişsel Davranışçı Psikoterapiler Derneği, 2025) Çakır Mete, Betül; Selman Adıyaman, Saliha Büşra; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Psikoloji Bölümü
Humor can deepen therapeutic alliance and cognitive flexibility, yet its clinical value appears to depend on the characteristics of the client. This study examined how sociocultural factors play a role in psychotherapy expectations for humor use. In a preregistered study of adults (n=398, 77.1% female; Mage=34.5, SD=12.1), participants completed personality, coping humor, expectation of humor in therapy, and demographic/cultural measures. Group differences were assessed using t-tests and analysis of variance (t/ANOVA); a path model (adjusted for demographic and contextual covariates) was used to test whether the approach to humor in culture was linked to coping humor and expectations for humor in psychotherapy. Men reported greater use of coping humor than women (p<0.05). Habitual coping with humor was strongly correlated with higher expectations for therapeutic humor (ρ=0.60, p<0.05). Regression analyses showed that older age (β=0.16, p<0.05) were independently associated with stronger expectations of humor in psychotherapy. A favorable cultural stance toward humor was associated with more coping humor (β=0.24, p<0.05), which in turn was related to higher expectations (β=0.38, p<0.05); the indirect effect (β=0.09, 95% CI.05–0.14) accounted for 40% of the total association. Personality traits and other covariates were not significant. Clients who come from humor-affirming cultures and already rely on humor to cope are most likely to expect and presumably benefit from humor in psychotherapy. Therefore, a culturally attuned, client-centered use of humor may enhance engagement without compromising therapeutic seriousness.
Cognitive and affective empathy, executive functions, and the key role of personal distress: Why do autistic traits predict mental health symptoms in neurotypical adults?
(Springer Nature, 2025) Sönmez, Dilruba; Jordan, Timothy R.
Individuals with elevated autistic traits often experience internalizing symptoms that affect their quality of life. However, the mechanisms underlying this process in neurotypical populations remain unclear. The present study investigated the mediating roles of executive functions (cognitive flexibility, working memory, inhibitory control) and social cognition (affective empathy, cognitive empathy) in this relationship. The mental health symptoms of 159 neurotypical adult participants (ranging 18-45) were assessed using the Autism Quotient, Depression Anxiety Stress-21, Patient Health Questionnaire-9, and Generalized Anxiety Questionnaire-7. Within the same participants, executive functions were assessed using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task, N-back Task, and Go/No-Go Task, while social cognition was assessed using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, the Eyes Test, and the Self-Assessment Manikin. Results indicated that autistic traits were positively associated with mental health symptoms. Among the examined variables, personal distress-a component of affective empathy—was the only factor showing a link between attention-switching difficulties and mental health symptoms. Neither cognitive empathy nor executive functions demonstrated significant associations. These findings suggest that heightened affective empathy may be related to greater emotional vulnerability in individuals with elevated autistic traits. The study contributes to a better understanding of the associations among autistic traits, affective empathy, and mental health, and underscores the importance of considering emotion-regulation processes in future research.
False needs in the digital age: Exploring social media's role in digital consumption behavior
(ASOS Eğitim Bilişim Danışmanlık, 2025) Ba Matraf, Ibrahim; Gawas, Ahmed
The modern period we live in today is typified by technology, and this evermore entangled technology in all facets of our lives has also affected consumer behavior. This escalating influence has prompted crucial questions concerning the genuineness of individuals’ needs. This paper uses the theory of false needs by philosopher Herbert Marcuse, and focuses on how the utilization of social media platforms impacts consumption by fabricating false needs that don't arise from authentic needs. To accomplish the goal of this study, a quantitative approach was applied, with data gathered from 395 Arab residents in Türkiye, from different income, education, and cultural backgrounds. The study results shows that online purchasing behavior is positively associated with augmented time spent on social media platforms. Purchase intentions—conceptualized as false needs—were also found to significantly mediate the relationship between social media use and consumer purchasing behavior. The research outcomes did not reveal any significant influence of income, age, or educational level on false needs or purchasing behavior. The current findings empirically validate Marcuse's assumptions about the existence of false needs in modern society, which in turn suggests that social media influences consumption principally by creating false needs. The study contributes to the discourse surrounding digital consumption and consumer behavior in the digital age.
The nexus of video gaming experiences: The associations among basic needs in games, real-life basic needs, well-being indicators, and problematic online gaming
(AVES Ibrahim Kara, 2025) Subaşı, Mustafa; Gürkan, Emre; Karaman, Hakan; Bulut, Sefa; Osin, Evgeny N.; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Psikoloji Bölümü; Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi, Rehberlik ve Psikolojik Danışmanlık Bölümü
Recent research highlights the vital roles of basic needs in video gaming experiences. Both need-supportive and need-frustrating video gaming experiences have theoretical and practical implications for real-life need satisfaction and frustration, and well-being outcomes. This study aimed to adapt the Basic Needs in Games Scale into Turkish, tested the psychometric properties of “gaming in general” and “gaming in a particular game” versions of the Turkish Basic Needs in Games Scale, and investigated the associations among the Basic Needs in Games Scale, problematic online gaming, life satisfaction, meaning in life (i.e., coherence, purpose, significance), and real-life basic psychological needs. This study recruited a sample of 247 Turkishspeaking participants who played at least one video game over the past 2 weeks. The results provided evidence for the structural validity of the Turkish Basic Needs in Games Scale versions, and demonstrated good reliability for the Basic Needs in Games Scale subscales. The findings indicated that indicators of need satisfaction and frustration in games were primarily associated with their real-life counterparts and showed complex associations with life satisfaction, meaning in life, and problematic online gaming. The implications for further research on basic needs in video games are discussed.
The epistemic virtues of an Ottoman scholar: Discourses on being an ʿĀlim in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
(University of Chicago Press, 2025) Asadov, Ayaz; Medeniyetler İttifakı Enstitüsü, Medeniyet Araştırmaları Ana Bilim Dalı
A recent trend in the history of knowledge is the study of historical discourses on scholarly practices and ideals through the lens of epistemic virtues. Realizing the centrality of virtue language to past discussions of scholarship, historians of science and humanities have increasingly drawn on the work of virtue epistemologists to investigate what good scholarship meant in particular situations. By examining specific intellectual virtues such as objectivity, impartiality, thoroughness, and creativity, they have explored how these key characteristics of scholarly personae emerged and acquired particular meanings and why they were often contested in different contexts. However, the field has thus far tended to focus on early modern European thought and the responsibilist stream of virtue epistemology. As an endeavor to contribute to this expanding field, the article aims to highlight some aspects of late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ottoman intellectual debates on being a scholar by drawing primarily on four major educational texts of the period, namely, Fayḍ al-Ḥaram and Sharḥ al-Akhlāq al-ʿAḍudiyya by Müneccimbāşī (d. 1702), Tartīb al-ʿUlūm by Sāçaḳlīzāde (d. 1732), and the anonymous Kevākib-i Sebʿa. I argue that al-malaka al-ʿilmiyya, the Ottoman term for intellectual virtue, was central to discussions of scholarly ideals and will explore the possibility of interpreting it as a form of virtue reliabilism.
