Determination of young people participation levels in context of values

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between social psychological variables - values and the level of political participation of young people. The study has been applied to a total of 388 students at Bingöl University. Data obtained from the study have been analyzed by using relational screening model. The political participation levels of the youth (active, civil, passive) have been measured by the political participation scale developed by Tola (2007). The value tendencies of youth have been measured by the inventory developed by Rokeach (1967) which has two sub-dimensions, "objective" and "instrumental", and 18 values in each dimension. The findings of the research have shown that political participation is related to values. Equality, freedom and a world with peace which are objective values has shown a negative relationship with the civil participation of politic levels. While there has been a positive relationship between the civil participation and concern for Hereafter, has not been found relationship between the value of national security and political participation. While there has been found a negative correlation between the levels of active and civil participation and independence of instrumental values, has not been found correlation with passive level. It has been found that intellectual value is only related to the level of civil participation, and this relationship is negative. It has been found that ambitiousness and responsibleness values are not associated with political participation. This thesis has been examined the basic processes that affecting young people's political participation, by taking into account the previous studies in this area. Keywords: Youth, Political Participation, Value