TAKING THE PULSE OF THE PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATORS IN TURKEY: A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY ON WORK ATTITUDE.

While translation is one of the oldest occupations in history, translators are a professional group that has been rather neglected by both academic and professional circles. Within the increasingly demanding economy, they feel the day-to-day pressures of the ever-expanding global language services sector and struggle to find a balance between work and life. They are also striving for higher levels of recognition, professionalization, and fair remuneration. While there are a number of promising studies that focus on translators as professionals, the work attitude tools developed for translators to date lack appropriate validity and reliability tests. Thus, the study aims to adapt the job satisfaction, work-life balance, turnover intention, and workload scales developed for employees from different sectors to translators. The study conducted with the participation of 216 translators living and working in different provinces in Turkey shows that these adapted scales are valid and reliable measurement tools in the Turkish language (Chi-square/df: 1.71; RMSEA: 0.058; SRMR: 0.049; NFI: 0.96; NNFI: 0.98; CFI: 0.98, GFI: 0.90 and AGFI: 0.85). Alongside validity and reliability, this study examines the correlations among the variables obtained from the analyses of the scales, drawing statistically significant results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]