The relationship between childhood treatments, loneliness and fur expression style in young adults

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between childhood traumas, loneliness and anger expression styles in young adults.The study group consists of 370 university students who have been studying at Haliç University and who participating voluntarily in the study.In the study, the Socio-Demographic Information in order to collect personal information of the participants, the Childhood Traumas Scale in order to evaluatetheir traumatic experiences in childhood, the UCLA Loneliness Scale in order to measure their sense of loneliness, and the Anger Expression Style Scale in order to determine their anger expression styles were used as data collection tools. The SPSS 22.00 program was used in the analysis of the data.The results were evaluated in the 95% confidence interval and at P<0.05 significance level. 64.9% of young adults are women and 35.1% are men.31.9% of the participants are first-year students and while one from their family members of the 24.9% of the participants died, as for 75.1% did not.The babyhood/childhood care of 84.9% of the participants was taken care by the their family, the babyhood/childhood care of 12.7% of the participants was taken care by their grandma and grandmother and as for the babyhood/childhood care of 2.4% of the participants taken care by their caretaker. The total trauma score of childhood of young adults was determined as ( ̅= 40.65; ss =11.42).In addition, it was determined that physical abuse ( ̅=9.04; ss=3.19) is the highest sub-dimension and as for emotional neglect ( ̅=6.82; ss=2.31) is the lowest sub-dimension.Anger expression style total score of young adults was determined as ( ̅=76.29; ss =14.77).In addition, when the sub-dimensions of anger expression styles scale were examined, it was determined that the continuous anger dimension ( ̅=21.34; ss =5.88) is the highest sub-dimension and the anger expression ( ̅= 16.74; ss=4.33) is the lowest sub-dimension.The loneliness score of young adults was determined as ( ̅=35.89; ss=9.43).Childhood traumas of young adults were higher in the total score of their childhood traumas and in all other sub-dimensions (sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional neglect, emotional abuse and disdain trauma)in male participants except for the physical neglect sub-dimension (t368=- 2.86;p=.004). A positive and significant relationship was determined between childhood traumas and anger expression styles of young adults. In addition, it was determined that the anger expression styles and loneliness levels of young adults is positively and significantly related.As a result of the study, the relationship between childhood traumas, loneliness and anger expression styles of young adults was determined.