Thesis Archive
Master’s theses completed by our graduate students are listed below.
| Name – Surname of the Student | Year | Title | Thesis Advisor |
| Ece Şahin Özgönül | 2025 | Comparative analysis of contact, interactions and prejudices between members of groups with different social and cultural identities (ethnicity, religion-sect, sexual orientation) in Turkish and American TV series | Prof. Abbas Türnüklü |
| Fatih Erdoğan | 2025 | Examination of digital game addiction in adults within the scope of the cognitive behavioral model | Prof. Gülay Dirik |
| Yasemin Şanlı | 2025 | Investigation of factors associated with quality of life in patients with chronic blood diseases | Prof. Arzu Araz |
| Simay Yağmur Yel | 2025 | Examining self-continuity through autobiographical memory and family rituals | Prof. Arzu Araz |
| Tuğçe Ormancı | 2025 | Help-seeking and stigmatization for psychological problems in the framework of the health belief model: The example of OCD | Prof. Orçun Yorulmaz |
| Erim Utku Küçüktopuzlu | 2025 | How and under what conditions do collective futures function as motivators? An examination in the context of climate change | Prof. Serap Akfırat |
| Emre Güneş | 2025 | The effects of participation in co-production activities on the psychological well-being and integration attitudes of refugee and native women | Prof. Serap Akfırat |
| Başak Küçükkeskin | 2025 | Emotional responses toward individual and collective self threats | Prof. Serap Akfırat
Assoc. Prof. Derya Durusu Emek Savaş |
| Duygu Kırıcı | 2025 | Examining the role of precarious manhood and ambivalent sexism in the perception of psychological dating violence | Prof. İnci Boyacıoğlu Bal |
| Rozana Urkun | 2025 | Relationships between attitudes toward animals and the acceptance of myths about intimate partner violence against women | Prof. İnci Boyacıoğlu Bal |
| Bensu Akdemir | 2024 | Examination of paternal involvement in “Young adults” whose parents divorced and not divorced | Prof. Abbas Türnüklü |
| Nadire Billor Karaaslan | 2024 | Examination of the co-parenting competencies of uncontested and contested divorce | Prof. Abbas Türnüklü |
| Behram Sağ | 2024 | Examination of co-parenting competencies of uncontested and contested divorced couples | Prof. Abbas Türnüklü |
| Macide Zeynep Bilsel Süner | 2024 | An examination of psychological distress and well-being in a community sample: Test of Acceptance Commitment Therapy model | Prof. Gülay Dirik |
| Simge Arıkan | 2024 | Psychological symptoms and post traumatic growth levels and related variables of caregivers of people with dementia in the scope of conservation of resources theory | Prof. Gülay Dirik |
| Hilal Uslu | 2024 | An investigation of the relationships between quality professional qualities of life and psychological distress level with empathy, self-compassion and psychological inflexibility of people working in the field of social services | Prof. Gülay Dirik |
| Oğuzhan Güzel | 2024 | Values, social norms and time perspectives as predictors of pro-environmental behaviors | Prof. Arzu Araz |
| Betül Taşkolu | 2024 | Caregiving experience in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Examination of psychological burden, family accommodation and mental health literacy on psychological well-being | Prof. Orçun Yorulmaz |
| Ali Kemal Burkut | 2024 | Testing the sociocultural model and examining the role of body image flexibility in muscle dysmorphia and eating disorder symptoms in an adult sample of regular exercisers | Prof. Orçun Yorulmaz |
| Tolunay Ünal | 2024 | Investigation of generalized anxiety and depression symptoms within the framework of a transdiagnostic approach: The Role of anxiety sensitivity, experiential avoidance, mindfulness and emotion regulation difficulties | Prof. A. Esin Yılmaz Samancı |
| Ezginur Çelik | 2024 | An investigation of symptoms of eating disorders: the roles of cognitive fusion and emotional distress on the relationship between disorder-specific obsessive beliefs and symptoms | Prof. A. Esin Yılmaz Samancı |
| Rumeysa Özlü | 2024 | An examination of the mediating role of internalized shame, self-compassion, and contrast avoidance in the relationship between invalidating childhood environment and social anxiety | Prof. A. Esin Yılmaz Samancı |
| Şevval Dönmez | 2024 | A model proposed for explaining post-traumatic stress and growth reactions after traumatic events: The role of childhood traumas, post-traumatic cognitions, psychological flexibility and experiential avoidance | Prof. A. Esin Yılmaz Samancı |
| Utku Engüzel | 2024 | The mediating role of self-critical rumination, psychological flexibility and perceived stress in the relationship between childhood traumas and depression and generalized anxiety symptoms | Prof. A. Esin Yılmaz Samancı |
| Esma Nur Uçar | 2024 | Assessment of cognitive functions in alcohol and substance use disorder: Turkish standardization study of the Brief Executive Function Assessment Tool | Assoc. Prof. Derya Durusu Emek Savaş |
| Funda Ekici | 2024 | The effect of hand preference on change detection performance according to object location: The role of right-left discrimination level | Assoc. Prof. Derya Durusu Emek Savaş |
| Pelinsu Dilay Deniz | 2024 | The frith-happé animations: Study of validity and reliability | Asst.Prof. Ceren Hıdıroğlu Ongun |
| Ece Tunç | 2023 | An investigation on the obsessive-compulsive disorder from inferential reasoning perspective: The impact of inferential confusion, feared self, parental attitudes and obsessive beliefs on the symptoms | Prof. Orçun Yorulmaz |
| Ayşegül Özdemir | 2023 | Moderation effects of autonomous-relational self construal and religiosity on the relation between interference of the family and marriage quality | Prof. Arzu Araz |
| İlayda Çavuş | 2023 | Examining childhood psychological trauma effects on psychological distress and well being on the emerging adulthood sample in the framework of resiliency theory | Prof. Gülay Dirik |
| Orhan İlhan | 2023 | The relationship between emotion regulation flexibility and executive functions | Assoc. Prof. Derya Durusu Emek Savaş |
| Tuğçe Taşkıran | 2023 | Dot perspective task: The effect of stimulus characteristics, task difficulty and subject type on task performance | Assoc. Prof. Derya Durusu Emek Savaş |
| Sabina Huseynbalayeva | 2023 | The effect of stress on ‘Wanting’ and ‘Liking’ behavior in binge eating disorder: The role of core beliefs, emotion regulation and impulsivity | Asst. Prof. Derya Durusu Emek Savaş |
| Mehmet Can Tanfer | 2023 | The effect of nicotine abstinence on attentional performance: An eye-tracking study | Asst.Prof. Ceren Hıdıroğlu Ongun |
| Muhammed Enes Karacoşkun | 2022 | Examination of individuals’ social identity whose parents have different ethnic identities and prejudice that they experience | Prof. Abbas Türnüklü |
| Taner Görüryılmaz | 2021 | The effects of free will belief and ego depletion on the decisions made in the ultimatum game | Assoc.Prof. Serap Akfırat |
| Nilay Abınık | 2021 | The effect of event and social media identity centrality on the relationship between cyber violence against women and psychological health | Assoc.Prof. İnci Boyacıoğlu |
| Necati Enöz | 2021 | Sexism, parental self-efficacy, relationship quality as the predictors of father involvement | Assoc.Prof. Arzu Araz |
| Hasan Yentür | 2021 | Examination of leader behaviors at workplaces within framework of social identity theory | Assoc. Serap Akfırat |
| Melike Gökcen | 2021 | The effects of social identity threat on existential meaning and on mood in the context of self-defining memory and self-regulatory focus | Assoc.Prof. İnci Boyacıoğlu |
| Özge Kuruluş | 2021 | Examination of intrusive experiences as raw material of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in line with Cognitive Behavioral Model | Prof. Orçun Yorulmaz |
| Muazzez Yıldırım | 2020 | Factors related with psychological distress, posttraumatic growth and life satisfaction in mothers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder | Prof. Gülay Dirik |
| Pynar Ali Dai | 2020 | The effects of the conflict resolution education ‘We Can Resolve Our Conflicts’: Western Thrace elementary school sample | Assoc.Prof. Arzu Araz |
| Betül Polat | 2020 | An examination of metacognitive model of posttraumatic stress disorder on university students | Assoc.Prof. A. Esin Yılmaz Samancı |
| Ayşegül Celap | 2020 | An investigation of psychological distress and posttraumatic growth levels of persons with myocardial infarction and related variables in terms of Cognitive Adaptation Theory | Prof. Gülay Dirik |
| Nurten Yılmaztürk | 2020 | Investigating the role of the difficulty of intrapersonal and interpersonal emotion regulation in the relationship between perceived stress, life events, psychological well-being and personality disorders | Prof. Orçun Yorulmaz |
| Sidar Kıran | 2020 | Cognitive and metacognitive factors in predicting health anxiety | Assoc.Prof. A. Esin Yılmaz Samancı |
| Gökçe Devrim Ader | 2019 | Dimensional obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms and fear of self: A research about related variables in an adult sample | Prof. Orçun Yorulmaz |
| Emine Saki | 2019 | The role of perfectionistic self presentation in the relation of perfectionism and friendship quality | Assoc.Prof. Arzu Araz |
| Tuğça Şentürk | 2019 | Turkish normative data of semantic and phonemic verbal fluency tests | Asst.Prof. Derya Durusu Emek Savaş |
| Veysel Karazor | 2019 | An analysis of the intergroup contact, friendship, empathy, anxiety and attitudes of university students from different backgrounds in their dormitory life. | Prof. Abbas Türnüklü |
| Taylan Yurtbakan | 2019 | The role of imagined contact on attitudes towards Syrians | Assoc.Prof. Serap Akfırat |
| Müge Tüfekçi | 2019 | Discriminative validity of the Stroop Test Çapa Version in mild cognitive impairment and alzheimer’s disease | Asst.Prof. Derya Durusu Emek Savaş |
| Günsu Aşıla Ceylaner | 2019 | The interplay between adult attachment and perceived relationship value in close and long distance relationships: The functions of autobiographic memory | Assoc.Prof. İnci Boyacıoğlu |
| Pınar Acet | 2019 | Posttraumatic stress symptoms and posttraumatic growth among adults: An investigation within the scope of the autobiographical memory, transformed self and mindful-reappraisal models | Prof. Gülay Dirik |
| Mehmet Mahir Boydak | 2019 | Digit Span Test: Normative data for Turkish population aged 50 years and older | Asst.Prof. Derya Durusu Emek Savaş |
| Zeynep Gülşah Kocaman | 2019 | The role of values in relationship between attitudes toward violence against women and political tendency | Assoc.Prof. İnci Boyacıoğlu |
| Tolga Ergiyen | 2019 | The effect of superordinate group, superordinate goal and identity undermining on intention of the living together | Assoc.Prof. Serap Akfırat |
| Duygu Uzun | 2019 | An examination of the relationships between perceived parental attitudes, personality traits, metacognitions and intolerance of uncertainty as the predictors of pathological worry | Assoc.Prof. A. Esin Yılmaz Samancı |
| Nur Didem Yıldız | 2019 | Examination of body perception according to cognitive behavioral model: Body dysmorphic disorder and other related factors | Prof. Orçun Yorulmaz |
| Cansın Dinç | 2019 | Predicting the disease trajectory of mild cognitive impairment with the discrepancy between semantic and phonemic fluency performance | Asst.Prof. Derya Durusu Emek Savaş |
| Zehra Gem | 2018 | Development of questionnaires on emotion awareness and emotion myths and an integrative intervention program of emotion regulation: A preliminary examination | Prof. Orçun Yorulmaz |
| Hasan Arslan | 2018 | Examining posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms within the framework of metacognitive model and emotion regulation strategies | Assoc.Prof. A. Esin Yılmaz Samancı |
| Gülfem Özçelik | 2018 | Regulatory focus, coping strategies and mental health among women who are exposed to violence | Assoc.Prof. İnci Boyacıoğlu |
| Aybike Çavdar | 2018 | Psychological resistance, political orientations and feminist identity of women who exposed to violence in their romantic relationship | Assoc.Prof. İnci Boyacıoğlu |
| Emine Akman Direkçi | 2018 | Emotional expression styles and friendship quality as mediators of the relation between adults’ remembrances of parental acceptance-rejection in childhood and loneliness | Assoc.Prof. Arzu Araz |
| Burcu Ebru Aydoğdu | 2017 | Factors related with psychological distress and posttraumatic growth in women with breast cancer: Core beliefs, rumination and type C personality | Prof. Gülay Dirik |
| Özlem Yılmaz | 2017 | Factors associated with abnormal illness behaviors and quality of life in adults: Health anxiety, anxiety sensitivity, health related dysfunctional beliefs and alexithymia | Prof. Gülay Dirik |
| Ayça Aktaç | 2017 | Examining the effect of intervention including psychoeducation and contacton the public stigma towards obsessive compulsive disorder | Prof. Orçun Yorulmaz |
| Gizem Bozyel | 2017 | An examination of the mediating role of metacognition in the relationship between childhood trauma and psychological symptoms among undergraduate students | Assoc.Prof. A. Esin Yılmaz Samancı |
| Koray Akkuş | 2017 | An examination of obesity in relation to adult attacment styles, mood symptoms and metacognitive factors | Assoc.Prof. A. Esin Yılmaz Samancı |
| Çağla Aktaş | 2017 | Relationship between self-esteem and autobiographical memory | Assoc.Prof. İnci Boyacıoğlu |
| Esen Yangın | 2017 | Examination of social psychological factors influencing acculturation strategies toward syrian refugees: Hatay case | Assoc.Prof. Serap Akfırat |
| Emir Üzümçeker | 2017 | The relationship between ingroup favouritism/fair distribution strategies with norms, individual differences and identity motives in minimal group situation | Assoc.Prof. Serap Akfırat |
| Canan Erdugan | 2016 | Cognitive, emotional and behavioral indicators of gratitude in close friendship | Assoc.Prof. Arzu Araz |
| Cennet Yastıbaş | 2016 | An investigation of psychological distress and quality of life among patients with irritable bowel syndrome in the scope of Leventhal’s self-regulatory model of illness behaviors | Assoc.Prof. Gülay Dirik |
| Gülşah Durna | 2016 | Examination of the reactions towards obsessive-compulsive disorder from the perspective of social-cognitive stigma model | Assoc.Prof. Orçun Yorulmaz |
| Mete Sefa Uysal | 2016 | Collective actions, leadership and social media: Gezi park case | Asst.Prof. Serap Akfırat |
| Leyla Alma | 2016 | An investigation of smoking dependency in the framework of the metacognitive approach | Assoc. Prof. A. Esin Yılmaz Samancı |
| Zeynep Akyüz | 2016 | Examining the compulsive buying behavior in the cognitive behavioral model frame | Assoc.Prof. Orçun Yorulmaz |