Bu araştırmanın gayesi, muayyen tipte kültür temaslarının başka milletlere ve kültürlere karşı, olan attitüdlere tesirini aramak ve ölçmektir.

The purpose of this study was to investigate, the attitudes of Turkish University students i n certain types of internationally oriented behavior, and to find out the effects of contacts with , other cultures to problems of humanity. For this purpose, The «World-Mindedness Scale» designed b y Dr. Donald L . Sampson of Britis h Colombia University was applied to a group of fift y subjects proficient i n a foreign language, and to a second group of 100 unilingua l Ss. The Attitud e Scale consisted of 32 items including followin g dimensions ,: Religion, immigration, government, economics, patriotism, race, education and war. 1 — Attitude s of Ss. having relations wit h another culture (or cultures) are more world-minded than the other «closed» group. The former's primar y reference group is mankind, whereas the latter's their own nation. I n another word , one of these two groups favors the interests of kind, whil e the other, his own nation. 2 — Female students are less national-minded than males. This difference whic h could not be found among American subjects may be explained as a cultura l characteristic for the Turkis h University students. 3 — To be educated i n a private foreign school does not influence world-minded atititudes very much. Neverthless, a more detailed research may possibly yield different results on this point.