THE INVESTIGATION OF THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ACCORDING TO GENDER AND COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY OF LEVEL ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP BELIEFS
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The purpose of this study is to examine the whether there is a difference among according to gender and cognitive flexibility levels of university students’ romantic relationship beliefs. The data was collected from 635 students (343 female, 292 male) who have been studying in different faculties of Mersin University in Turkey. In order to determine the cognitive flexibility levels of the university students' “Cognitive Flexibility Scale”, to determine their romantic relationship beliefs “Romantic Beliefs Scale” were used. Analysis of the data was made using SPSS 20 software package program. In the analysis of the survey data, Two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) technique were used in order to analyze whether LSD test was used to test the source of differences. The level of significance in the study was considered to be .05. According to the results of the research, there is a meaningful difference of the between variables (Love is a way and Idealization). Cognitive flexibility levels of university students increases belief in romantic relationships is also increasing.
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