@article{2019,title={INDIVIDUALIST-COLLECTIVIST TENDENCIES AMONG YOUTH OF TURKEY AND CENTRAL ASIAN TURKIC REPUBLICS},abstractNode={Societies which see individual as the constituent of society, base society's objectives on the achievement of individual's objectives and care about the values of equality, autonomy and freedom are recognized as individualist, and those in which community or group is featured and determinant, society is seen as the source of values and values of loyalty, devotion, responsibility and solidarity are cared about on the other hand are considered having a collectivist culture. This research aimed to identify and compare the individualistic and collectivist tendencies of Turkish, Azeri, Kyrgyz and Uzbek youth. The study group of the research having used the relational survey method was composed of 758 students of ages varying between 20 and 26 years who were studying in the third and fourth grades at Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University and had graduated from the university in the last three years. The Individualism-Collectivism Scale developed by Singelis et al. (1995), tested by Triandis and Gelfand (1998) for validity and adapted to Turkish by Wasti and Erdil (2003) was utilized to quantify individualist and collectivist values in the research. It was concluded in the research that the students from the four countries had higher collectivist tendencies and had more dominant horizontal collectivist tendency which is the subscale of collectivism. Moreover, no significant difference was found between the students of the four countries in terms of collectivist tendency while the highest mean was observed among the Kyrgyz participants and the lowest mean among the Turkish participants. The highest differences between the vertical and horizontal individualist-collectivist tendencies were observed between the Turkish-Uzbek and Turkish-Kyrgyz. The female and male students of the four countries were also compared among each other in the research. The research findings were compared and discussed with the information obtained from the relevant literature.},author={Hasan YILMAZ},year={2019},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}