The investigation of regional boarding primary schools students? attachment styles

In this study, attachment styles from the sixth, seventh and eighth grades of Regional Boarding Primary Schools? (RBPS) students were investigated according to some variables. Students were chosen from the sixth, seventh and eighth grades of elementary schools by group sampling among RBPS group of 459 (179 girls, 280 boys) students and 368 (188 girls, 180 boys) students who have attended the unboarding primary schools.?The Attachment Scale For Early Adolescents? was used to determine attachment styles, ?Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents? was used to measure the social anxiety and ?The Children?s Loneliness Scale (the form for 5th-8th grade)? was used to measure the loneliness levels. ?Student Personal Information Questionnaire?, developed by the researcher, has been applied to determine the independent variables related to personal and family characteristics and the conditions in RBPS. For data analysis, One-Way Analysis of Variance, Pearson-Moments Correlation Coefficient, Mann Whitney-U test and Kruskall Wallis test were used.According to the study results; there was significant difference between attachment styles of the RBPS students and the unboarding primary school students. Also there was no significant difference between attachment styles of the students who have attended the RBPS and the students? gender, grade, their parents alive or not, birth order, duration at the RBPS and the reasons attend the RBPS. However there was significant difference between attachment styles of the students who have attended the RBPS and the students? boarder or not, the number of siblings him/her, satisfaction with their friends, satisfaction with the school, , registered the RBPS with their willing or without their willing, frequency of visit by their parents, frequency of visit to their home, perception their teachers attitudes, perception their parents attitudes and their academic success. In addition a significant relationship was found with attachment styles and loneliness levels with social anxiety levels.Key Words: Attachment, Attachment styles, Regional Boarding Primary Schools