Evaluation of the relationship between social anxiety, depression and parental attitude, and perfectionism tendencies and adjustment to university on a group of university students

In this research, it is aimed to analyze the relationship between university student's social anxiety, depression and parental attitude, and perfectionism tendencies and adjustment to university. Under the research; social-phobia, depression, parental attitude, and the effects of perfectionism tendencies on adjustment to university are determined. A total of 196 students, who have studied in 1., 2., 3., and 4. grades at Yeditepe University's different faculties, participated to the research in 2015-2016 academic year. Within the context of the research; 'The Scale of Adjustment to University' for measuring the adjustment to university of university students; Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for specifying the social anxiety levels, Beck Depression Scale for measuring the depression levels, Parental Attitude Scale for evaluating parental attitudes and Multi-dimensional Perfectionism Scale for specifying perfectionism levels and a personal information form developed by the researcher to obtain information about other demographic characteristics are used. The data obtained in the research are analyzed by using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) for Windows 22.0 program. Mann-Whitney U test and kruskall whallis test are used. Mann-Whitney U test is used adjunctly to designate the differences after Kruskal Wallis test. Spearman correlation and regression analysis are used between continuous variables of the research. The results obtained from the research are consistent with other literature. There is significant relationships in a negative direction between adjustment to university and social anxiety, depression, perfectionism and protective-demanding parental attitude, however, while there is no significant relationship between authoritarian parental attitude and adjustment to university; significant relationships in a positive direction are specified between adjustment to university and democratic parental attitude. It is found that while social anxiety, depression, perfectionism and protective-demanding parental attitude decrease adjustment to university; democratic and authoritarian parental attitude increase adjustment to university. While student's perfectionism level according to gender and class level, and academic adjustment levels according to gender make a significiant difference. Keywords: Social anxiety, depression, parental attitude, perfectionism and adjustment, student