Abstract

Problem Statement School belonging includes the extent to which students feel personally accepted respected included and supported by others in the school Although school belonging appears to play a critical role in academic and psychosocial outcomes of schooling no related study can be found in the Turkish educational landscape Therefore it is important to adapt the Psychological Sense of School Membership PSSM Scale for Turkishlanguage use and to investigate the Turkish students sense of school membership in further studies Purpose of the Study The purpose of the present study is to adapt the PSSM scale to the Turkish educational context and to define its factorial structure for Turkish-language use Method The PSSM was administrated to 238 students attending 6th- 7th- and 8th-grade in Adana Turkey To create the Turkish version of the PSSM the scale was translated from English to Turkish with forward and reverse translation methods