Emotional Reactivity Scale Adaptation to Turkish Culture: Reliability and Validity Study

The purpose of this study is to adapt Emotional Reactivity Scale developed by Mathew and his friends (2008) to the Turkish culture. Emotional reactivity has been described as an important factor in interpersonal relations, and in individual's psychological alignment. For this reason, adaptation of "Emotional Reactivity Scale" to the Turkish culture is considered important. This research is the work of a scale adaptation. Study group of the research consists of 290 male and 275 female with a total of 565 undergraduate students studying in Erzurum Ataturk University, in the academic year 2012-2013. Since the research is a scale adaptation work, it is translated into English, which is primarily dominated by two academics has been adapted into Turkish, and has been translated into English again by a different scholar. After establishing language, the validity of the scale and reliability of the analysis are examined. In order to determine the construct validity of the scale, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was performed and KMO .871, Bartlett test χ2 value of 864.937 (p