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Researching the problem solving abilities of the college students in Albania and Turkey by various variances is the general purpose of this research. Within the frame of this general purpose, “are the sub-dimensions of the problem solving inventory of the students of Epoka University of Albania and Selcuk University of Turkey differentiating and according to variances of gender, age and university department?” were researhed. 526 randomly selected undergraduates from the Business, International Relations, Computer Engineering and Civil Engineering departments of the Epoka and Selcuk Universities constituted the sample of the study. Epoka University of Albania was added to the research population with Selcuk University of Turkey because of the fact that the students of it were graduated from Turkish High Schools and they could talk, understand, read and write in Turkish language. The "Problem Solving Inventory" adapted to Turkish by Sahin, Sahin and Heppner (1993) was used in the collection of data. In the study it was determined that the students of Epoka University exhibit more positive problem solving approaches in terms of impatient, avoidant and self-confident approaches than the students attending to Selcuk University. It was also determined that the total problem solving inventory points of the students of the both universities did not differentiate in terms of gender and the departments they attend to, but exhibited a significant difference in terms of the variable of age. 

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