The effect of parental attitudes on depression, basic psychological needs and life positions

Parental attitudes have great significance throughout an individual's life starting from the first years of life. Considering the previous researches, while there are studies on the effects of parental attitudes on the individual's mood and anxiety level, there is no remar-kable study examining the effects of parental attitudes on basic psychological needs, life positions and depression. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between these variables. The sample of the research consisted of 187 males and 276 females aged between 18-25 years. It was applied; Demographic Information Form to determine the demographic charac-teristics of the partipicants, Beck Depression Inventory to get information about the level of depression of partipicants, Leuven Adolescent Perceived Parenting Scale to get information about percieved parental attitude of participants, Basic Psychological Needs Scale to get information about the level of basic psychological needs of participants and Life Positions Scales to get information about the life positions of participants respectively. The results of the analysis showed that the effects of parental behaviors on depression were mediated by basic psychological needs and life positions.In addition, the results of the analysis revealed the mediating effect of basic psychological needs on the effect of parental attitudes on life positions.Finally, the mediating effect of life positions on the effects of ba-sic psychological needs on depression was indicated in the study.