Betül Dilara ŞEKER
University of Life, Life Science, Department Member
- Celal Bayar University, Psychology, Faculty Memberadd
- Betül Dilara Şeker is Independent Researcher of Psychology. She is a graduate of Ege University where she has complet... moreBetül Dilara Şeker is Independent Researcher of Psychology. She is a graduate of Ege University where she has completed her PhD in Social Psychology. Before joining Manisa Celal Bayar University in 2012, Dr. Şeker has worked at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University. She has moved to academia after a spell as a teacher working at Ministry of Education. She has carried out research in London while she was a post-doctoral visiting researcher at Regent’s Centre for Transnational Studies at Regent’s University in 2013. Her recent research mainly focuses on acculturation,migrant integration, social cognition and intergroup relation.edit
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This study examines the relationship between the police officer’s burn out, job satisfaction and life satisfaction levels who works in Van Police Department. In addition, the relationship between these concepts and the demographic... more
This study examines the relationship between the police officer’s burn out, job satisfaction and life satisfaction levels who works in Van Police Department. In addition, the relationship between these concepts and the demographic variables are examined. A survey was conducted to 1121 male, 93 female, total 1214 police officers and supervisors. In this survey, Maslach Burn out Scale, Life Satisfaction Scale, and Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale were applied. One way variance analyses was used to explain and scale relations between job satisfaction and daily life. Applicants also were grouped in terms of their ages, educational status, marital status career of wife of husbands, work span, appreciation of superiors, work unit, reason of choosing the job, satisfaction of career or work. Also, in the study these rates were variables of special scales. Moreover, three dimensions of burn out (emotional burn out, feeling of personal success and desensitization) were defined and explained clearly. Results showed a relationship between the variables. People having much more feeling of life satisfaction had satisfaction of career; their anxiety, burn out and sense of personal success declined. Orientation and satisfaction of such people in terms of work were in high level.
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I examined the level and predictors of life satisfaction among 504 participants who had experienced the 2011 Van (Turkey) earthquake (hit group), and 326 participants who, living in another city, had not (nonhit group). Participants... more
I examined the level and predictors of life satisfaction among 504 participants who had experienced the 2011 Van (Turkey) earthquake (hit group), and 326 participants who, living in another city, had not (nonhit group). Participants completed measures of overall life satisfaction, belief in a just world, and hope. Results of group comparisons revealed that the hit group had significantly lower life satisfaction than did the nonhit group. Further, the life satisfaction of the hit group was significantly and positively associated with general belief in a just world, personal belief in a just world, and hope, whereas the significant correlations for the nonhit group existed between life satisfaction and general and personal belief in a just world. According to the regression results of the hit group, participants with high general belief in a just world, personal belief in a just world, and hope can be assumed to be more satisfied with their lives.
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Until recently, migration studies addressed women in such a frame whereby they embraced the decisions of men and outcomes of these decisions. The transformation in international migration movements and the soaring... more
Until recently, migration studies addressed women in such a frame whereby they embraced the decisions of men and outcomes of these decisions. The transformation in international migration movements and the soaring number of women migrants require a new gender-oriented approach to migration research. The purpose of this study is to reveal the gender-related victimization of women with an experience of migration, and to discuss the need for delegating women to a privileged position in migration research.
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Turkish Migration Conference 2015 was held at Charles University Prague from 25 to 27 June 2015 and attended by over 200 academics presenting research on Turkish migration, migration in, to, through and from Turkey. The conference was... more
Turkish Migration Conference 2015 was held at Charles University Prague from 25 to 27 June 2015 and attended by over 200 academics presenting research on Turkish migration, migration in, to, through and from Turkey. The conference was chaired by Ibrahim Sirkeci, and co-chaired by Philip Martin, Jeffrey Cohen, Wadim Strielkowski and Inna Cabelkova.
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Traditional source countries have been rapidly becoming destination countries. However, the fact remains that there are still countries with surplus populations and others who do not want any more migration. Following the collapse of the... more
Traditional source countries have been rapidly becoming destination countries. However, the fact remains that there are still countries with surplus populations and others who do not want any more migration. Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, there were large population movements between Anatolia and neighbouring territories including the compulsory population exchanges between the newly formed Turkish Republic and Greece between 1923 and 1926. While the majority of non-Muslim minorities left Turkey, Muslim Turks moved in the opposite direction from the countries gaining independence after the collapse of the Empire. However what has put Turkey firmly on the international migration map are the mass labour migrations of the 1960s and 1970s. Following the energy crisis of the early 1970s, Turkish emigration found new destinations in Arab countries, Australia, and the former Soviet Republics in addition to the already established culture and routes of migration. Initial flows have been replaced by family migrations, refugee flows, asylum seeking migrants, and in more recent times the arrival of undocumented migrants in large numbers. Given this, we can identify five distinct periods in recent Turkish migration history: 1) the migration of mainly unskilled and skilled workers dominating the initial period from 1961 to 1973; 2) migrations due to family reunions dominating the second period until 1980; 3) Following the military intervention of 1980, Turkish or Kurdish refugees seeking asylum in Europe, along with flows of contract workers to Arab countries in the 1970s and 1980s; 4) flows of undocumented persons to Western Europe during the late 1990s and 2000s; 5) the boom in migration to Turkey with Turkey turning into an immigrant receiving country in the 2000s and 2010s.