Adaptation of the Climate Change Curiosity Scale into Turkish

In this study, the Climate Change Curiosity Scale (CCCS) developed by Próchniak and Ossowski (2023) was adapted into Turkish. The research was conducted on three separate study groups consisting of 527 prospective teachers. Of the 349 participants in the first study group, 10 were excluded from the dataset as they were outliers. The confirmatory factor analysis was conducted on the remaining 339 participants and it was detected that the unidimensional structure in the original version of the scale was verified and the factor loadings of the items ranged between .33 and .67. Within the scope of concurrent validity, the hypothesis that there was a positive significant relationship between the CCCS scores and the scores obtained from the Climate Change Worry Scale was tested, and the correlation analysis results performed with the data collected from 99 prospective teachers confirmed this hypothesis. The data from the first study group were used for internal consistency reliability estimates and item analysis, and the McDonald’s omega and Cronbach’s alpha coefficients were found to be .863 and .859, respectively, while the item correlations varied between .33 and .62. Test-retest reliability was examined on the data of 79 prospective teachers, and the intraclass correlation coefficient calculated for this purpose was obtained as .899. These results indicated that the Turkish version of the CCCS is a valid and reliable instrument.