Omer Faruk Simsek
My current research interests focus on the following areas:
(1) The relationship of language to counseling processes and mental health
(2) Qualitative character of experience (qualia) and its relation to language
(3) Wittgenstein's philosophy of language
(4) Positive mental health (subjective well-being, happiness, life satisfaction) and its relation to collective and social identities, attachment, and personal self-esteem, personal sense of uniqueness (different from the need for uniqueness or uniqueness theory)
Primary Interests:
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Health Psychology
- Interpersonal Processes
- Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Self and Identity
Books:
- Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling: Basic Principles and LISREL Applications (In Turkish). Ankara: Ekinoks
Journal Articles:
- Kloep, M., Güney N., Çok F., Şimşek Ö. F. (2009). Motives for Risk-Taking in Adolescence: Development of a Cross-Cultural Assessment Scale. Journal of Adolescence, 32: 135-151. (SSCI)
- Şimşek, Ö. F. (in pres). Language and the Inner: Development of the Beliefs about Functions of Language (BAFL) Scale. European Psychologist
- Şimşek, Ö. F. (2009). Revisiting Happiness: Ontological Well-Being as a Theory-Based Construct of Subjective Well-Being. Journal of Happiness Studies, 10: 505-522
Courses Taught:
- Applied Psychological Counseling
- Introduction to Psychology
- Language and Experience
- Philosophical Foundations of Psychology
- Principles of Psychological Counseling
- Research Methods in Psychology
- Research Methods in Social Sciences
Omer Faruk Simsek
Department of Psychology
Sakarya Caddesi, No. 156
34530 Istanbul
Turkey
- Work: +9 0232 488 85 19
- Mobile: +9 0505 688 25 30