Perceived parent attitudes, childhood traumas, God authority relations and ego investigation of the relationship between functions

Scientific studies show that perceived parental attitudes and childhood traumas in the early period have an impact on adult life. Therefore, studies in this field will make a great contribution to the literature. This research is about examining the relationship between perceived parental attitudes, childhood traumas, divine authority relationships and ego functions. When the relationship between parental attitudes and ego functions was examined, it was determined that there was a significant relationship between the ego function of Mastery, Achievement and Creativity and emotional warmth-mother, one of the parental attitude components. No significant relationships were detected between the ego functions subcomponents and the parental attitudes subcomponents emotional warmth-father, overprotective parents, rejectionism parents. When the relationship between ego functions and positive god perception was examined, there was a significant relationship between Dominance and Achievement ego function and positive god perception. level relationships could not be detected. A significant relationship was found between ego functions, Reality Evaluation, Sense of Reality, Functioning of Defenses, Thought Processes and Autonomic Functions, and negative perception of God. When the relationship between perception of God and childhood traumas was examined, there was a significant relationship between negative perception of God and childhood traumas, emotional and sexual abuse. It was observed that there was a high level of relationship. It has been observed that as the level of positive perception of God increases, the levels of childhood traumas decrease. Between Positive God Perception and Perceived Parental Attitudes (Emotional Warmth-Mother, Emotional Warmth Father and Overprotectiveness-Mother, Overprotectiveness-Father, Rejectionism-Mother, Rejectionism-Father) No significant relationship was detected. A significant relationship was found between Negative God Perception and Rejection-Mother, one of the Perceived Parental Attitudes. Convenience sampling method was used in the research and the population consists of 516 people. Demographic Data Form, Abbreviated Perceived Parental Attitudes-Child Form, Childhood Trauma Scale-Short Form (CTS-SF), God Perception Scale and Ego Functions Scale were used in the research. Data analysis was performed using SPSS 27 and Lisrel 8.51 program. Pearson Correlation analysis was used to analyze the relationship between the scales, Independent Samples t-test and ANOVA were used to analyze the comparison of scale scores to categorical demographic variables. Structural equation model was established to evaluate the mediating role of childhood traumas in the relationship between parental attitudes and perception of god. As a result of the research, it was found that perceived parental attitudes and childhood traumas had an effect on divine authority relations and ego functions; Results have been obtained showing that childhood traumas play a mediating role between perceived parental attitudes and divine authority relationships.