The search for indigenous psychologies: data from Turkey and the former USSR
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-07, 18:16authored byÜstün Öngel, Peter B Smith
Articles in the Turkish Journal of Psychology (n= 152), and in the journal Soviet Psychology (n = 261) were content analysed to determine the degree of indigenisation in Turkish and Soviet psychology. The results indicated that there was no tendency towards indigenisation in Turkish psychology, and North American theories and perspectives were widely used. Soviet psychology was found to be one of the rare examples of an indigenous psychology.