Investigation of the relationship between automatic thought, happiness and depression levels of parental attitudes on children

The research was conducted with the aim of studying the effects of parental attitudes on children's automatic thoughts, happiness and depression. The sample of the study consisted of 300 individuals in the 10-18 age group randomly selected from Istanbul. Parental Attitude Scale was used to measure parental attitudes, Happiness Inventory of School Children was used to measure happiness, Depression Scale for Children was used to measure depression, and Automatic Thoughts Scale was used to measure automatic thoughts. In addition, an information form including socio-demographic characteristics such as age, gender and monthly income was used. SPSS 23.00 was used for the analysis of the research data, and descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, t-test and ANOVA methods were used in the data analysis. The findings were evaluated at 95% confidence interval and 5% significance level. According to the findings of the study, democratic parental attitudes increase happiness and decrease negative automatic thoughts. Authoritarian parental attitudes reduce negative automatic thoughts. Negative automatic thoughts reduce happiness and increase depression. Keywords: Parental attitudes, automatic thoughts, happiness, depression