The relationship of parenting styles, emotion regulation and psychosomatic disorders in children and adolescents with asthma

There are limited studies investigating the effects of asthma, a common disease that occurs in childhood, on children's mental health. This study is a illness in the emergence of psychosomatic asthma, and can be comorbid other physical problems, the attitudes of parents of children with asthma may be overly protective of children and their autonomy enough support in the regulating process that can be associated with problems of emotion, they played the role of the assumption. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between parent attitudes, emotion regulation abilities and psychosomatic disorders in children diagnosed with asthma aged 8-17 years. This research included 64 children diagnosed with asthma and 96 children without any chronic diseases. Participants were supplied with a Sociodemographic Data Form, Parent Style Scale, Adolescent's Regulation of Emotions Questionnaire and Children's Somatization Inventory. This research data are analyzed with IBM SPSS 25.0 programme. In comparison the children with asthma and the control group, a significant difference was observed between the scores of the psychological autonomy sub-dimension in the Parent Style Scale and The Children Somatization Inventory. As a result, it was observed that children with asthma had low psychological autonomy compared to children without chronic disease (t(144)=-2,412, p<0,05), while psychosomatic symptom levels were higher (t(144)=2,412, p<0,05).