The study of the parenti̇ng stress in terms of parental self- efficacy and communication of parents with their children

This paper is a descriptive research based on relational scanning model which examines parental stress in terms of parental competence and communicationof parent with his child and some variables. Thepurpose of this study is to be brought in a valid and reliable assessment tool to the literature which evaluates the parental stress ofparents whose children are in adolescence period. Therefore, the Parenting Stress Index (PSI-SF) being improved first by Abidin (2012) and by doing its validity and reliability studiesand being brought in Turkish language by Çekiç, Akbaş and Hamamcı (2015), has been doneby applying it to parents whose children are adolescents. As a result of adaptation, a valid and reliable assessment tool, can be used for whose children are in adolescent period,has been provided to literature. Thestudy group of this research consists of the parents whose children are in adolescence period in the central district of Gaziantep. Sampling of this study, chosen by random sampling methods, consisted of 292 mothers and 200 fathers, in total 492 participants.In order to collect data it was used Parenting Stress Index (PSI-SF), Parental Competence Scale adopted by Demir and Gündüz ,and ParentChild Communication Scale developed by Kahraman (2016) ,and Demographic Information Form developed by researcher. The effect of Demographic variables on parental stress, parental competence and parental- child communication was analyzed with SPSS 17.0 program and DFA analysis of the scale was analyzed with LISREL 8.51. At the same time, itwas examinedthat how demographic variables affect parental stress and parental adolescent communication and it was found that parental competence and parental adolescent communication predicted 15,5 % of parental stress.