Savaş Karataş
Biographic Data
| ID | 189320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Savaş Karataş |
| GIVEN NAMES | Savaş |
| FAMILY NAME | Karataş |
| SIGNATURE | KARATAŞ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Akdeniz University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0002-2886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The costs of peer ethnic discrimination
The present study examined longitudinal associations between perceived peer ethnic discrimination, negative ethnic identity affect, and global identity coherence among ethnic minority adolescents in Italy ( n = 280; M age = 14.29; 59.28% female; 76.42% second‐generation). Results indicated negative bidirectional associations between negative ethnic identity affect and global identity coherence. While the associations between peer discrimination a…
An Introduction to the Special Issue on “Challenging Structural Inequities in Education to Promote Positive Psychosocial Outcomes in Migration Diverse Societies”
Global migration has made schools more diverse, yet many immigrant and other marginalized students continue to face unequal educational opportunities. These inequalities are shaped by factors such as socioeconomic disadvantage, limited inclusion efforts, and discriminatory experiences. This special issue brings together 14 studies from seven countries to explore how educational institutions in migration‐diverse societies can reduce these inequali…
The Floor Is (Y)Ours
The current study investigated the perspectives of auxiliary staff regarding their profession. This study used a holistic multiple‐case study design and a qualitative research method. The sample consisted of 45 auxiliary staff who worked in various K12 public schools in the central districts of a city in Turkey and voluntarily participated in the study. The study's participants, which was designed using a case study design, consisted of 45 auxili…
A blind spot in intergroup contact
The power of the communicative approach
This research examines classroom methodologies aligned with the communicative approach, gauging the perspectives of English teachers working within vocational high schools (VHSs). The study, employing a qualitative case study research design, engaged 10 teachers from diverse backgrounds. The participants volunteered for the study and were selected through a maximum diversity sampling technique, a purposeful sampling method. The research methodolo…
Administrators' perception concerning the auxiliary (janitorial) staff
The present study examined administrators' views on the working status, contributions to the education process, performance status, and employment processes of the school auxiliary staff. The research was conducted in a holistic multiple‐case study design, one of the qualitative research methods. The study group consisted of 22 school administrators who work in various K12 school settings in the central districts of a city in Turkey and voluntari…
Teachers’ Perceptions Regarding Effective School Features and Effective Leadership Qualifications of School Principals in Turkey
The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between effective school characteristics and effective leadership qualities from the perspective of a group of teachers in Antalya, Turkey, who were selected based on the demographic diversity of the population. The questionnaires “Qualifications of Effective Leaders Questionnaire” and “Effective School Characteristics Inventory” were used to collect data for the study. The data were collect…
The Effect of Administrator Replacement Circulation in Informal Education Institutions Providing Adult Education on Organizational Culture
The purpose of this study was to explore the opinions of administrators about the effect of administrator replacement circulation in non-formal education institutions providing adult education on organizational culture. In this qualitative study, ten randomly selected administrators were interviewed using the convenience sampling method. The data were analyzed via the content analysis technique. As a result of the research, most managers think th…
Navigating Across Heritage and Destination Cultures
Personal identity and social identification processes can be challenging for adolescents belonging to an ethnic minority, who have to cope with the acculturation task of navigating several (and often conflictual) alternatives put forth by their cultural heritage community and destination society. Because identity and acculturation tasks are embedded in core domains of adolescents’ life, this three-wave longitudinal study with ethnic minority adol…
Meeting in school
This study investigated the associations between cultural diversity approaches endorsed by teachers and adolescents' positive and negative intergroup contact in schools. Participants were 984 adolescents (Mage = 14.66; 62.7% female; 24.8% ethnic minority) involved in a three-wave longitudinal study between 2019 and 2020. Results highlighted that perceived equal treatment by teachers was related to higher positive and lower negative contact over t…
Positive and negative intergroup contact in school and out‐of‐school contexts
This study aims to tackle positive and negative intergroup contact in school and out-of-school contexts to test whether a spillover effect (i.e., the extent to which experiences that individuals have in one context spill over into another) applies to intergroup contact. Participants were 984 adolescents (M age = 14.66; 62.7% female; 24.8% ethnic minority). Results indicated that positive contact in school was related over time to higher positive …
Validation of the Serbian Version of the Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-Mics) in an Adult Population
The Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS) is a widely applied identity measure. It is used to assess the identity processes encompassed in the three-factor identity model (commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration of commitment). The purpose of this study was to validate the Serbian version of the U-MICS in an adult population. Participants were 375 (73.3% females) Serbian adults aged from 18 to 65 years (Mage = 33…
Psychological and social adjustment in refugee adolescents
Friendships have important implications for adolescents' psychological and social adjustment. However, there is still limited evidence on how different same-ethnic and cross-ethnic friendships are formed and regarding their role in refugee adjustment. Therefore, the present study was designed to examine the interplay of parents' and adolescents' same-ethnic and cross-ethnic friendships with adolescents' own psychological and social adjustment amo…
Understanding adolescents’ acculturation processes
Recent developments in the acculturation literature have emphasized the importance of adopting intergroup perspectives that provide a valuable background for investigating how acculturation orientations (i.e., maintenance of the culture of origin and the adoption of the destination culture) of adolescents from migrant families are embedded in their proximal socialization contexts. Accordingly, we sought to understand the combined effects of the p…
Attachment Avoidance and Anxiety in Adolescence
The aim of the present study is to test the factor structure and reliability of the Experience of Close Relationships-Relationship Structures Scale (ECR-RS) mother, father, romantic partner, close friend forms among Turkish adolescents. In order to test the structure validity of the ECR-RS, exploratory factor analysis is performed on a sample of 214 participants in Study 1, and to further investigate the structure validity, confirmatory factor an…
An Examination of School Administrators’ Technology Leadership Self-Efficacy / Ispitivanje samoučinkovitosti ravnatelja u upravljanju tehnologijom
The purpose of this study is to determine school administrators’ technology leadership self-efficacy levels and to examine whether school administrators’ technology leadership self-efficacy levels differed in terms of school level, professional seniority and participation in IT in-service programs. The survey method design was employed for the study. The sample consisted of 320 school administrators from different educational institutions from a …
Teachers’ Views on Multicultural Education
The purpose of the current study is to examine the attitudes of teachers working in primary, secondary and high schools, on multicultural education in terms of different variables through using relational screening model of descriptive research design. Thescope of the present study is 1634 teachers working in primary, secondary and high schools in Antalya city while the sampleof the study is 162 teachers working in primary, secondary and high sch…
Navigating Across Heritage and Destination Cultures
Personal identity and social identification processes can be challenging for adolescents belonging to an ethnic minority, who have to cope with the acculturation task of navigating several (and often conflictual) alternatives put forth by their cultural heritage community and destination society. Because identity and acculturation tasks are embedded in core domains of adolescents’ life, this three-wave longitudinal study with ethnic minority adol…
Positive and negative intergroup contact in school and out‐of‐school contexts
This study aims to tackle positive and negative intergroup contact in school and out-of-school contexts to test whether a spillover effect (i.e., the extent to which experiences that individuals have in one context spill over into another) applies to intergroup contact. Participants were 984 adolescents (M age = 14.66; 62.7% female; 24.8% ethnic minority). Results indicated that positive contact in school was related over time to higher positive …
An Examination of School Administrators’ Technology Leadership Self-Efficacy / Ispitivanje samoučinkovitosti ravnatelja u upravljanju tehnologijom
The purpose of this study is to determine school administrators’ technology leadership self-efficacy levels and to examine whether school administrators’ technology leadership self-efficacy levels differed in terms of school level, professional seniority and participation in IT in-service programs. The survey method design was employed for the study. The sample consisted of 320 school administrators from different educational institutions from a …
Teachers’ Views on Multicultural Education
The purpose of the current study is to examine the attitudes of teachers working in primary, secondary and high schools, on multicultural education in terms of different variables through using relational screening model of descriptive research design. Thescope of the present study is 1634 teachers working in primary, secondary and high schools in Antalya city while the sampleof the study is 162 teachers working in primary, secondary and high sch…
Attachment Avoidance and Anxiety in Adolescence
The aim of the present study is to test the factor structure and reliability of the Experience of Close Relationships-Relationship Structures Scale (ECR-RS) mother, father, romantic partner, close friend forms among Turkish adolescents. In order to test the structure validity of the ECR-RS, exploratory factor analysis is performed on a sample of 214 participants in Study 1, and to further investigate the structure validity, confirmatory factor an…
Understanding adolescents’ acculturation processes
Recent developments in the acculturation literature have emphasized the importance of adopting intergroup perspectives that provide a valuable background for investigating how acculturation orientations (i.e., maintenance of the culture of origin and the adoption of the destination culture) of adolescents from migrant families are embedded in their proximal socialization contexts. Accordingly, we sought to understand the combined effects of the p…
Psychological and social adjustment in refugee adolescents
Friendships have important implications for adolescents' psychological and social adjustment. However, there is still limited evidence on how different same-ethnic and cross-ethnic friendships are formed and regarding their role in refugee adjustment. Therefore, the present study was designed to examine the interplay of parents' and adolescents' same-ethnic and cross-ethnic friendships with adolescents' own psychological and social adjustment amo…
Validation of the Serbian Version of the Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-Mics) in an Adult Population
The Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS) is a widely applied identity measure. It is used to assess the identity processes encompassed in the three-factor identity model (commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration of commitment). The purpose of this study was to validate the Serbian version of the U-MICS in an adult population. Participants were 375 (73.3% females) Serbian adults aged from 18 to 65 years (Mage = 33…
Meeting in school
This study investigated the associations between cultural diversity approaches endorsed by teachers and adolescents' positive and negative intergroup contact in schools. Participants were 984 adolescents (Mage = 14.66; 62.7% female; 24.8% ethnic minority) involved in a three-wave longitudinal study between 2019 and 2020. Results highlighted that perceived equal treatment by teachers was related to higher positive and lower negative contact over t…
Positive and negative intergroup contact in school and out‐of‐school contexts
This study aims to tackle positive and negative intergroup contact in school and out-of-school contexts to test whether a spillover effect (i.e., the extent to which experiences that individuals have in one context spill over into another) applies to intergroup contact. Participants were 984 adolescents (M age = 14.66; 62.7% female; 24.8% ethnic minority). Results indicated that positive contact in school was related over time to higher positive …
The power of the communicative approach
This research examines classroom methodologies aligned with the communicative approach, gauging the perspectives of English teachers working within vocational high schools (VHSs). The study, employing a qualitative case study research design, engaged 10 teachers from diverse backgrounds. The participants volunteered for the study and were selected through a maximum diversity sampling technique, a purposeful sampling method. The research methodolo…
Administrators' perception concerning the auxiliary (janitorial) staff
The present study examined administrators' views on the working status, contributions to the education process, performance status, and employment processes of the school auxiliary staff. The research was conducted in a holistic multiple‐case study design, one of the qualitative research methods. The study group consisted of 22 school administrators who work in various K12 school settings in the central districts of a city in Turkey and voluntari…
Teachers’ Perceptions Regarding Effective School Features and Effective Leadership Qualifications of School Principals in Turkey
The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between effective school characteristics and effective leadership qualities from the perspective of a group of teachers in Antalya, Turkey, who were selected based on the demographic diversity of the population. The questionnaires “Qualifications of Effective Leaders Questionnaire” and “Effective School Characteristics Inventory” were used to collect data for the study. The data were collect…
The Effect of Administrator Replacement Circulation in Informal Education Institutions Providing Adult Education on Organizational Culture
The purpose of this study was to explore the opinions of administrators about the effect of administrator replacement circulation in non-formal education institutions providing adult education on organizational culture. In this qualitative study, ten randomly selected administrators were interviewed using the convenience sampling method. The data were analyzed via the content analysis technique. As a result of the research, most managers think th…
Navigating Across Heritage and Destination Cultures
Personal identity and social identification processes can be challenging for adolescents belonging to an ethnic minority, who have to cope with the acculturation task of navigating several (and often conflictual) alternatives put forth by their cultural heritage community and destination society. Because identity and acculturation tasks are embedded in core domains of adolescents’ life, this three-wave longitudinal study with ethnic minority adol…
The Floor Is (Y)Ours
The current study investigated the perspectives of auxiliary staff regarding their profession. This study used a holistic multiple‐case study design and a qualitative research method. The sample consisted of 45 auxiliary staff who worked in various K12 public schools in the central districts of a city in Turkey and voluntarily participated in the study. The study's participants, which was designed using a case study design, consisted of 45 auxili…
A blind spot in intergroup contact
The costs of peer ethnic discrimination
The present study examined longitudinal associations between perceived peer ethnic discrimination, negative ethnic identity affect, and global identity coherence among ethnic minority adolescents in Italy ( n = 280; M age = 14.29; 59.28% female; 76.42% second‐generation). Results indicated negative bidirectional associations between negative ethnic identity affect and global identity coherence. While the associations between peer discrimination a…
An Introduction to the Special Issue on “Challenging Structural Inequities in Education to Promote Positive Psychosocial Outcomes in Migration Diverse Societies”
Global migration has made schools more diverse, yet many immigrant and other marginalized students continue to face unequal educational opportunities. These inequalities are shaped by factors such as socioeconomic disadvantage, limited inclusion efforts, and discriminatory experiences. This special issue brings together 14 studies from seven countries to explore how educational institutions in migration‐diverse societies can reduce these inequali…
Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Medical education (4 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (4 works)