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“Humanistic side of the serial” was the third
factor for watching
Yabancı Damat. Especially
those items
which indicate the humanistic
views of serial take place in this factor. Items
in this factor have relatively high means value
so this is another important reason for watching
Yabancı Damat. The factor explains 9.3 per-
cent of total variation (cronbach alpha= .79)
The fourth factor was named as “nationalism”.
In this factor 5 item related with patriotic ideas
take place. The items making up the factor
have relatively low mean values which indicate
less agreement with the items. These demon-
strate the nationalistic ideas are not very strong
motive for watching
Yabancı Damat. This
factor explains 8.4 percent of total variations
(cronbach’s alpha = .73).
The last factor called as “media use” 3 items
making up this factor. These items are related
to general media use reasons. This
factor ex-
plains 4.7 percent of total variation (cronbachs
alpha = .61).
As a result, five factor solutions for reasons of
watching
Yabancı Damat serial explains 51.2
percent of total variation. For the reliability of
factors, cronbach’s alpha coefficients are calcu-
lated for all items and each factor. All the val-
ues are at acceptable level to proceed analysis.
CONCLUSION
Television serials are the most watched produc-
tion formats of television today. When looked
at the television watching percentages in Tur-
key, it is observed that the increase in the pro-
duction of TV series has raised Turkey to the
front rank in the world in terms of watching
television.
The Turkish TV serial ‘
Yabancı Damat’, which
was first broadcast in Turkey and then in
Greece with the title ‘Borders Of Love’.
When we
look at the results Yabancı Damat is
the one of the most watching television serial
in Turkey among university students 27.3 per-
cent of students watch often and 9.4% of them
watch always.
In the question of if you really love a Greek
person will you marry with him/her, results
showed that 39% of respondents say yes
meanwhile 61% of them say no. In this case,
we can say that the tension between Turks and
Greek still continue.
In another question Greece is in the third place
with a 12.6% in hostile countries among uni-
versity students.
The factor solution for motives of watching
Yabancı Damat has showed five factors. These
factors are; “contribution of the serial to
Greece-Turkey relations”, “performance of
serial”, “Humanistic side of the serial”, “na-
tionalism” and “media use”. These five factors
explain 51.2 percent of total variation. For a
social research, this rate is relatively high.
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