The effect of university students' retrospective perception of parental bonding on psychological resilience and the ways of coping with stress

The aim of this study is to investigate to the relationship between parental bonding, psychological resilience and ways of coping with stress among university students. The sample of this study 367 (190 women, 177 men) undergraduate students from Haliç University. The Parental Bonding instrument (PBI), Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA), Ways of Coping Inventory (WCI) and sociodemographic scale were used to collect data. It is determined that PBI scores of female participants are higher than men. Participants whose parents have higher education level perceive their parents as more caring/controlling than participants whose parents have lower education level. There is positive relationship between democratic parental attitude and parent attachment which is caring/controlling. There was a positive relationship between participants PBI scores with RSA and WCI scores. There was also a positive relationship between RSA and WCI scores. Inconclusion, regression analyses indicated that, parental bonding dimensions predict psychological resilience and ways of coping.