Research Article

The Relationship between the Need for Cognitive Closure and Value Priorities of University Students

Volume: 50 Number: 1 April 29, 2021
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The Relationship between the Need for Cognitive Closure and Value Priorities of University Students

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between the need for cognitive closure and value priorities of university students. Quantitative research method and associational research design were adopted in the research. The sample consisted of 148 university students. Data collection tools are Need for Cognitive Closure Scale and Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ-RR). Pearson correlation coefficient, canonical correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis were used in the analysis of the data. According to the results, the values that students give the most importance to are security-societal, dependability, care, and concern. The order of importance of higher order values is self-transcendence, openness to change, conservation and self-enhancement. Need for cognitive closure level of the students is high. The highest mean belongs to ambiguity, and the lowest mean belongs to predictability dimensions. Statistically significant relationships were found between the need for cognitive closure and achievement, face, and security societal. Only one pair out of four canonical pairs obtained from canonical correlation analysis has sufficient relationship to continue the analysis. For this canonical pair, all of the four dependent variables (self-transcendence, self-enhancement, openness to change, conservation) and four independent variables (order, predictability, decisiveness, ambiguity) have significant loading. According to the regression analysis results, order and ambiguity predict self-transcendence; predictability and decisiveness predict self enhancement; ambiguity and decisiveness predict openness to change, and order and predictability predict conservation significantly.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Studies on Education

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

April 29, 2021

Submission Date

June 28, 2020

Acceptance Date

March 28, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Volume: 50 Number: 1

APA
Yağan, S. A. (2021). The Relationship between the Need for Cognitive Closure and Value Priorities of University Students. Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, 50(1), 121-149. https://izlik.org/JA65UK97DS
AMA
1.Yağan SA. The Relationship between the Need for Cognitive Closure and Value Priorities of University Students. Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi. 2021;50(1):121-149. https://izlik.org/JA65UK97DS
Chicago
Yağan, Saadet Aylin. 2021. “The Relationship Between the Need for Cognitive Closure and Value Priorities of University Students”. Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi 50 (1): 121-49. https://izlik.org/JA65UK97DS.
EndNote
Yağan SA (April 1, 2021) The Relationship between the Need for Cognitive Closure and Value Priorities of University Students. Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi 50 1 121–149.
IEEE
[1]S. A. Yağan, “The Relationship between the Need for Cognitive Closure and Value Priorities of University Students”, Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 121–149, Apr. 2021, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA65UK97DS
ISNAD
Yağan, Saadet Aylin. “The Relationship Between the Need for Cognitive Closure and Value Priorities of University Students”. Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi 50/1 (April 1, 2021): 121-149. https://izlik.org/JA65UK97DS.
JAMA
1.Yağan SA. The Relationship between the Need for Cognitive Closure and Value Priorities of University Students. Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi. 2021;50:121–149.
MLA
Yağan, Saadet Aylin. “The Relationship Between the Need for Cognitive Closure and Value Priorities of University Students”. Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 50, no. 1, Apr. 2021, pp. 121-49, https://izlik.org/JA65UK97DS.
Vancouver
1.Saadet Aylin Yağan. The Relationship between the Need for Cognitive Closure and Value Priorities of University Students. Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi [Internet]. 2021 Apr. 1;50(1):121-49. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA65UK97DS

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