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The importance of values in predicting Turkish youth's opinions about the European Union in light of the Copenhagen Political Criteria

dc.contributor.authorŞimşek, Sefa
dc.contributor.buuauthorKuşdil, Muharrem Ersin
dc.contributor.departmentFen Edebiyat Fakültesi
dc.contributor.departmentPsikoloji Bölümü
dc.contributor.orcid0000-0002-3005-9009
dc.contributor.researcheridM-2330-2017
dc.contributor.researcheridD-2834-2016
dc.contributor.scopusid55521831700
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-04T07:22:07Z
dc.date.available2024-04-04T07:22:07Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThe enlargement process of the European Union may be regarded as one of the most important social projects of human history in that it is trying to unite several nation-states under a European identity. As a historically and culturally distant candidate, Turkey has been asked to meet a set of expectations referred to as the Copenhagen Criteria, requiring a series of large-scale reforms to the infrastructure and superstructure of the country. Taking advantage of the unique opportunity to relate Turkish people's opinions on the criteria to their values, hypotheses based on Schwartz's model of values were tested. Schwartz's Personal Values Questionnaire and a questionnaire measuring opinions on the criteria and the Union were completed by 368 Turkish university students. Factor analysis of the opinion items yielded five factors: reduction of military influence in civil life, scepticism towards Europe and the European Union, improvement of human rights and liberties, improvement of minority rights, and lack of transparency in public institutions. Regression analyses showed that values and nationalism were powerful predictors of opinions whereas the effect of religiosity was limited only to the prediction of a preference for the reduction of military influence in civil life. Preference for openness to change values were successful in predicting variance in three of the five criteria: The more the participants favoured these values, the more they supported the improvement of human rights and liberties, the improvement of minority rights, and regretted the lack of transparency. Self-transcendence values were also positively related to support for the same three criteria together with a preference for reduction of military influence. As for nationalism, the results showed that this variable was related negatively to reduction of the military influence, improvement of human rights and liberties, improvement of minority rights; and positively to scepticism.
dc.identifier.citationKuşdil, M. E. ve Şimşek, S. (2008). "The importance of values in predicting Turkish youth's opinions about the European Union in light of the Copenhagen Political Criteria". International Journal of Psychology, 43(6), 988-996.
dc.identifier.endpage996
dc.identifier.issn0020-7594
dc.identifier.issue6
dc.identifier.pubmed22022842
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-56749151066
dc.identifier.startpage988
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00207590701484827
dc.identifier.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00207590701484827
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11452/40986
dc.identifier.volume43
dc.identifier.wos000261090400006
dc.indexed.scopusScopus
dc.indexed.wosSCIE
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherJohn Willey & Sons
dc.relation.collaborationYurt içi
dc.relation.journalInternational Journal of Psychology
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectPsychology
dc.subjectEuropean union
dc.subjectNationalism
dc.subjectReligiosity
dc.subjectTurkish youth
dc.subjectValues
dc.subjectValue priorities
dc.subjectPersonality
dc.subjectIdentities
dc.subject.emtreeAdult
dc.subject.emtreeArticle
dc.subject.emtreeAttitude
dc.subject.emtreeCivil rights
dc.subject.emtreeCultural anthropology
dc.subject.emtreeCultural factor
dc.subject.emtreeEuropean union
dc.subject.emtreeFemale
dc.subject.emtreeHuman
dc.subject.emtreeHuman rights
dc.subject.emtreeHuman rights
dc.subject.emtreeMale
dc.subject.emtreeMinority group
dc.subject.emtreePolitics
dc.subject.emtreePsychological aspect
dc.subject.emtreeQuestionnaire
dc.subject.emtreeReligion
dc.subject.emtreeSocial behavior
dc.subject.emtreeSocial psychology
dc.subject.emtreeStudent
dc.subject.emtreeTurkey (republic)
dc.subject.meshAcculturation
dc.subject.meshAttitude
dc.subject.meshCivil rights
dc.subject.meshCultural evolution
dc.subject.meshEuropean union
dc.subject.meshFemale
dc.subject.meshHuman rights
dc.subject.meshHumans
dc.subject.meshIslam
dc.subject.meshMale
dc.subject.meshMinority groups
dc.subject.meshPolitics
dc.subject.meshQuestionnaires
dc.subject.meshSocial identification
dc.subject.meshSocial values
dc.subject.meshStudents
dc.subject.meshTurkey
dc.subject.meshYoung adult
dc.subject.scopusPersonal Values; Transcendence; Universalism
dc.subject.wosPsychology, multidisciplinary
dc.titleThe importance of values in predicting Turkish youth's opinions about the European Union in light of the Copenhagen Political Criteria
dc.typeArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication
local.contributor.departmentFen Edebiyat Fakültesi/Psikoloji Bölümü
local.indexed.atPubMed
local.indexed.atScopus

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