Comparison of the effects of parents' attitudes perceived by children on their emotional intelligence and moral maturity according to family structure

This study was conducted to compare the effects of parental attitudes on emotional intelligence and moral maturity according to the family structure. The study was designed as a cross-sectional, descriptive design, and correlation seeker in the screening model. The sample of this study was consisted of fragmented (n:50), nuclear (n:139) and extended (n:50) family structures a total of 208 students over 14 years of age who studied in a private high school created. The data were collected with a questionnaire followed after ethics committee and institutional permission. The questionnaire was composed of four parts: Personal Information Form, Moral Maturity Scale, Revised Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale and Perceived Parental Attitude Scale. The data obtained in the study were performed in IBM SPSS 24 program by Kolmogorov Smirnov/Shapiro Wilk test, descriptive tests, Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis H test, Relation; Spearman's rho correlation test and Cronbach alpha statistical analysis was done with the tests. The level of significance in the differences and correlations was accepted as p<0,05. This study was completed between October 2017 and December 2018. Most of the children in the study; nuclear (50,4%) and extended (52,6%) family structures in the male, in the fragmented family structures (64%), 17 years (Core:33,1%; Wide: 41,1%; Fragmented: 38%), their mother (Nuclear:59.7% Extended: 66,7%; Fragmented: 56%) and their father (Nuclear: 49,6%; Extended: 50%; Fragmented: 34%), perceived attitude, perceived irrelevant attitudes were found to be more perceived in both the mother and the father than in the nuclear and extended family structures. It was found that Perceived authoritarian parents' attitudes significantly negative affected the moral maturity of the children in the fragmented families (p<0,05), while the perceived democratic parents' attitudes significantly positive affected the moral maturity of the children in the nuclear and fragmented families (p<0,05).