Sena Öz

Introduction: Interest in biomimicry education has grown recently, yet little is known about how high-achieving science high school students conceptualize biomimicry and translate biological knowledge into sustainable design ideas across disciplines. Methods: Using a qualitative case study design, data were collected from 29 ninth-grade students via a written semi-structured form and analyzed through content analysis using the Biology-to-Design Spiral as the analytical framework. Results: Students were familiar with biomimicry and successfully transformed biological knowledge into design logic, but their conception of “living things” remained predominantly animal-centric and the range of inspiration organisms was narrow despite daily contact with the school grove. Designs centered on structural and functional traits and were linked to technology-based, sustainability-oriented solutions. Discussion: Everyday contact with nature alone does not appear sufficient to broaden biomimicry thinking; structured learning environments connecting ecological experience with scientific and design reasoning are needed. Biomimicry education shows strong interdisciplinary potential to integrate biology, engineering, and sustainability and to foster ecological thinking among gifted adolescents.

Social media has become an inseparable part of modern life. While existing research focuses on the various outcomes of social media use on adolescents, there is a perceived need for an in-depth investigation into the relationship between problematic social media use and adolescents’ overall socioemotional well-being. This study aimed to examine the associations between adolescents’ problematic social media use and their socioemotional well-being. A sample of 715 adolescents (mean age = 16.69, SD = 0.65) was included in the study group. Self-reported data were collected using scales designed to assess problematic social media use and socioemotional well-being. Parametric test methods, including Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), were utilized after confirming the normal distribution of the data. The analyses indicated that problematic social media use was significantly and negatively associated with the components of socioemotional well-being. A relationship was established between problematic social media use and socioemotional well-being variables. Furthermore, problematic social media use was found to be higher among girls, as well as among participants who spent more time on social media and those who reported attempts to reduce their social media use. Considering the associations between social media use and adolescents’ socioemotional well-being, taking precautionary measures in this regard is deemed highly important.

Amaç: Bu araştırmada, Çocuk Gelişimi alanında lisansüstü eğitime devam eden öğrencilerin akademik becerilerinin güçlendirilmesine yönelik sunulan 24 saatlik çevrimiçi eğitimin etkisinin incelenmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Yöntem: Yarı deneysel desende gerçekleştirilen araştırmanın çalışma grubunda Türkiye’de Çocuk Gelişimi alanında lisansüstü eğitimine devam eden 40 öğrenci yer almaktadır. Araştırmada, Kişisel Bilgi Formu, Araştırmaya Yönelik Kaygı Ölçeği, Araştırmaya Yönelik Tutum Ölçeği ve Eğitim Değerlendirme Formu veri toplama aracı olarak kullanılmıştır. Bulgular: Araştırmaya Yönelik Kaygı Ölçeğinden elde edilen ön test ve son test puan ortalamalarının anlamlı bir şekilde farklılaşmadığı, Araştırmaya Yönelik Tutum Ölçeğine ait Araştırma Kaygısı (AK), Araştırmaya Yönelik Pozitif Tutum (AYPT) ve Araştırma Güçlüğü (AG) alt boyutlarında ön test ve son test puan ortalamaları arasında istatiksel olarak anlamlı bir farklılık olduğu belirlenmiştir. Sonuçlar: Bu çalışma çocuk gelişimi alanında lisansüstü eğitime devam eden öğrencilerin akademik becerilerinin geliştirilmesinde eğitimlerin önemine işaret etmektedir. Ayrıca planlanacak farklı içeriklerdeki eğitimlere yönelik noktalara ilişkin bir çerçeve sunulmaktadır.

Amaç: Sürdürülebilir sağlık bireylerin ve toplumların sağlığını çevresel, ekonomik ve sosyal açıdan dengeli ve uzun vadeli bir şekilde korumayı ve geliştirmeyi amaçlayan bir yaklaşım olmakla birlikte çocuk ve aile bu kavram içerisinde önemli bir yere sahiptir. Bu yüzden geçmişten günümüze yapılan çalışmalara bütüncül bakış açısı kazandırma ve çalışmaların eğilimlerinin incelenmesi bakımından içerisindeki eğilimlerinin incelenmesi önemli görülmektedir. Bu araştırmanın amacı, sürdürülebilir sağlığı çocuk ve ebeveyn bağlamında ele alan makalelerin bibliometrik analiz yöntemiyle incelenmesidir. Gereç ve Yöntem: Araştırmanın verileri, Web of Science veri tabanından elde edilmiştir. Web of Science üzerinden "sustain*" AND "health*" AND "child*" AND "parent*" anahtar kelimeleri ile arama yapılmıştır. Arama sonucunda İngilizce dilinde ve makale türünde olan araştırmalar veri setine dâhil edilmiştir. Toplamda 4000 makale araştırmanın verilerini oluşturmaktadır. Veriler Bibliometrix R-paketi üzerinden analiz edilerek yayın yılı, dergi, ülke, anahtar kelimeler, sık kullanılan kavramlar boyutlarında görselleştirilmiştir. Bulgular: Yapılan analizler sonucunda, ilgili alanda yayınlanan makale sayısının 1983’ten itibaren artış gösterdiği (yıllık %14.44), konuyla ilgili en fazla yayın yapan dergilerin sırasıyla BMC Publich Health (119 makale), Pediatrics (80 makale) ve Plos One (79 makale) olduğu, en fazla yayının Amerika Birleşik Devletleri (8510 makale), Avustralya (2203 makale), Birleşik Krallık (1785 makale) ve Kanada’da (1640 makale) yapıldığı belirlenmiştir. Makalelerde kullanılan ortak anahtar kelimelerin ise yaygın olarak çocuk, ergen, sağlık, ebeveynler, çıktılar, müdahale, etki, bakım, program, fazla kilo, mental sağlık, fiziksel aktivite olduğu belirlenmiştir. Sonuç: Araştırmadan elde edilen sonuçlar göz önüne alındığında sürdürülebilir sağlık bağlamında daha fazla çalışmanın yapılmasına ihtiyaç olduğu düşünülmektedir. Ayrıca sürdürülebilir sağlık konusunda çalışacak araştırmacılar bu araştırma doğrultusunda çalışacakları konulara yön verebilirler. Farklı değişkenleri ele alan farklı dillerde yapılmış araştırmaların bibliometrik analizlerinin yapılması önerilmektedir.

The study attempted to explore how the family roles of expectant mothers in the last months of their pregnancy change, their plans for family in postpartum, how they prepare for incoming-newborn care and development. In this phenomenological study, a semi-structured interview-form was utilized and held interviews with 17-expectant-mothers. Results revealed that the majority of the participants did not receive training in pregnancy and life with a baby and experienced changes to family roles during pregnancy, and mostly adjusted their physical environments within primary newborn care. We determined that most participants were not prepared to support the infant’s development and relied on the internet as a major resource for learning how to provide primary newborn care and support their development. The expectant mothers had worries about health, breastfeeding, and possible mental difficulties while this was health, financial issues, and ignorance for expectant fathers. We believe that training in pregnancy, birth, basic newborn care, and supporting infant development from the very beginning of the pregnancy needs to be disseminated and turned into national programs for expectant parents across the country.

This article aimed to analyze aggression–victimization differentiation in middle-school students by empathy level, gender, and grade level. A total of 260 students living in a middle–low-socioeconomic region of Ankara, Turkey, participated in the study (mean age = 12.89, standard deviation = 0.96). Results indicated that the students were more likely to be victims of violent behaviors rather than being aggressors. We found a high probability that victims could become aggressors or vice versa. There were no significant differences between empathy and victimization–aggression. Besides, the results revealed boys were more prone to being victims and aggressors, especially concerning physical–verbal aggression and harming properties. However, girls were more likely to be victims of isolation and—to a lesser extent—verbal aggression. We discussed these results in light of literature.

Objectives: Parents talk to their children about memories of shared/unshared past, and these conversations are referred to as parental reminiscing. Parental reminiscing contributes significantly to varied developmental areas such as autobiographical memory, language, social, and sense of self. There are a limited number of measuring tools to determine reminiscence functions, that is, what purposes parents talk to their children about the past. The main purpose of this study is to adapt the Caregiver-Child Reminiscence Scale (CRS), which allows the scrutinization of the functions of parental reminiscing, to Turkish language and culture and, thus, to contribute to studies investigating cultural differences. Materials and Methods: The sample included 507 parents with children aged 2-6 years. The Caregiver-Child Reminiscence Scale is a 7-point Likert-type forty-item scale. It has seven sub-scales as Conversations, Relationship Maintenance, Behavioral Control, Teaching/Problem Solving, Emotion Regulation, Self-Functions, and Cognitive Skills. Results: The Cronbach’s Alpha coefficients range between .88-.99. for the sub-scales in this study. The descriptive analyses suggested that the parents aged 29 years and under did reminiscing to provide more behavioral control than those aged between 30-39 years. The participating mothers were reminiscing for maintaining the relationship, teaching/problem solving, emotion-regulation, and self-functions. Parents with high-school or less education were reminiscing more to achieve behavioral control than parents with undergraduate or postgraduate education. Conclusion: The CRS was found to be a valid and reliable for the Turkish culture. It is believed that it will allow intercultural studies in this field.

We carried out the present meta-analysis study to secure the reliability generalization of the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Scale (CAMM) based on its reliability findings in different studies. The study only considered full-text papers in English that were indexed in Web of Science, PubMed, ProQuest, and Scopus and presented a Cronbach’s alpha value of the measurements with the CAMM (209 alpha values out of 155 papers). Using the random effects model and the Bonnet transformation, the relevant analyses yielded the transformed Cronbach’s alpha value of the CAMM to be 0.80 (CI = 0.79-0.81). The present meta-analysis study concluded that the CAMM is rather reliable to be utilized in child and adolescent populations. Besides, moderator analyses to scrutinize the alpha values yielded significant differences in favor of the origin continent of the research and the CAMM-short version (25-item/10-item). Yet, it was not the case with the publication type and the adaptation status of the scale. In a nutshell, future research may confidently employ the 10-item short form of the CAMM to assess mindfulness among children and adolescents.

The pandemic has mandated some healthcare workers to provide contact tracing services. The present study aimed to discuss the parenting perceptions and experiences of healthcare professionals assigned to contact tracing teams. We carried out this phenomenological study with 29 mothers and 26 fathers selected using the purposive sampling techniques. We collected the data using a demographic information form and a parent interview form and analyzed them using the content analysis method. The results revealed that the parents attempted to balance between the risks of their tasks and their parenting roles. Also, their perception of protecting their families was the basis of their efforts to protect themselves. Moreover, the social distance to family members revealed longing and intimacy expectation among the participants. The pandemic has significantly impacted families, which is exponentially dramatic for contact tracing teams as health workers. Therefore, it seems significant to carry out counseling works with such families.