Relational Needs Satisfaction Scale: reliability and validity study in Turkish

Erskine and his colleagues17 defined eight relational needs: 1) the need for security, 2) the need to feel validated, affirmed, and significant within a relationship, 3) the need for acceptance by a stable, dependable, and protective another person, 4) the need for the confirmation of personal experience, 5) the need for self-definition, 6) the need to have an impact on the other person, 7) the need to have the other initiative, 8) the need to express love. A pilot study was conducted on a sample of 30 people who were either students or employees of Kocaeli University, to ensure that the final version was easily understood in the Turkish language. Participants The study was conducted on a sample of 561 participants, which consisted of students from faculties of Medicine, Engineering, Law, Fine Arts, Health Sciences and Sports Sciences as well as employees from Faculty of Medicine in Kocaeli University. [...]RNSS appears to be highly reliable and