Developing tolerance Scale for Adults and Evaluating Tolerance Tendency of adults

Individuals in a society have to develop tolerance feeling towards each other in order to have good relationships. Individuals and groups in a society will inevitable have different ideas, properties/characteristics and life styles. Those individuals and groups in a society must accept differences and respect/accept them in order to face with conflict rooted from mentioned differences. It is a necessity to develop tolerance scale for adults as a result of the importance of tolerance in daily life. At that study, it is aimed to develop adult version of Tolerance Tendency Scale, determining tolerance levels of adults and examining tolerance levels of adults in accordance with some variables. Three different working groups were used in the study. The first study group consisted of 515 adult individuals who received formation training at Sakarya University for the exploratory factor analysis of the scale. The second study group consisted of 126 students studying at the Faculty of Business Administration of Sakarya University in order to conduct the test-retest reliability studies of the scale. The third study group consists of 498 individuals who are university graduates from different faculties of Sakarya University. The selection of the research group was determined by random sampling method (easily accessible) using randomly-probability sampling. In analyzing data, SPSS 21 software package was used with .05 significance level in order to test the significance of the research problems. At the end of the study, the ten item Tolerance Tendency Scale-Adult Form was obtained. Reviewing the results of the study, it is seen that there not a significant difference between "tolerance tendency" scores and "respect to differences" scores of males and females. Acceptance level of males is high. The number of siblings does not have a meaningful relationship in tolerance tendencies. Family education has impact on tolerance levels. Tolerance tendency and acceptance level of adults are related in society and acceptance and respect to differences becomes more significant in family environment. Key Words: Value, Tolerance, Scale Development