@mastersthesis{bal2025literary,
  author = {Bal, Onur},
  title = {Literary Work Readership and Its Relationship with Mentalisation and Empathy},
  school = {Yeditepe University},
  year = {2025},
  type = {Master's thesis},
  url = {https://onurbal.com/en/academics/thesis/}
}

3.3. Procedures

Participants were selected through convenience sampling, and consisted entirely of voluntary individuals, who were recruited online through social media platforms, face-to-face through acquaintances and social circles of the author. They took part in the study through a Google Form survey using their personal smartphones, tablets or computers. The data was collected between 26 September 2024 and 30 April 2025. Participants digitally confirmed an informed consent form before they could participate. No information which could expose the participants’ anonymity was collected. The author’s and the thesis supervisor’s contact information were shared for possible queries. In the digital survey, the structure was as follows: (1) Informed Consent, (2) Demographics Form, (3) Book Checklist, (4) Reading Habits Self-Report, (5) STAI, (6) ECQ, (7) MentS, (8) QCAE, and finally (9) Debriefing. The procedure of the study was approved by the Science-Ethics Committee of Yeditepe University (see Appendix K).