A cross-cultural comparison of Turkish and Kyrgyz students’ belief in a just world
Journal Title: Journal of Human Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 13, Issue 3
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to compare Turkish and Kyrgyz students on their just world beliefs. One hundred and four Turkish and one hundred twenty Kyrgyz undergraduates participated in the study. The data was collected using the 13-item Just World Beliefs Scales by Dalbert (1999). To examine the differences a 2 (country) x 2 (sex) multivariate factorial analysis of variance was carried out. The results revealed that there were significant gender and country differences between the Turkish and Kyrgyz students’ general just world beliefs and personal just world beliefs. Also, the results showed that male students had a stronger just world beliefs than the female students and the Kyrgyz students had higher scores in the just world beliefs in comparison to the Turkish students.
Authors and Affiliations
Sevinc Çırak Karadağ, Serap Akgün
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