Investigation of the relationship of parental attitudes with life satisfaction and social skills of secondary school students

Theaim of this research is to examine the extent to which parent attiudesaffect the level of relationship between life satisfaction and social skills in secondary school students and whether they change according to sociodemographic variables. The study was conducted with 432 parents and secondary school students aged 12-14 living in Istanbul Bahçelievler district in 2022. While collectingthe data, the Sociodemographic Information Form, the Parent-Child RaisingAttitudesScale, the ParentingPracticesScale, the MultidimensionalStudent Life Satisfaction ScaleandtheMatson Child SocialSkillsAssessmentScalewereused. PearsonCorrelationCoefficient in IBM SPSS Statistic 22.0 program fordeterminingandexaminingthe relationshipsbetweenvariables; Independentgroups t-test andOne-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used to examine whether the difference between the variables on thescaleswassignificantorinsignificant.With the analysis of variance being significant in the results of theresearch, theTukey test wasusedtofindoutwhichvariablewascausedby it. Thesample of thestudyconsists of 432 mothers/fathers and theirchildren. The number of students participating in the studywas 204 (47.2%) girlsand 228 (52.8%) boys; The number of parents is 321 mothers (74.3%) and 111 fathers (25.6%). Considering the research findings, as the total scores of the democraticattitude, authoritarianattitude, overlytolerantattitudeandparentingpracticesscaleincrease, the total scores of Çöydö school/environment/family/self sub-dimensionsandMessypositivesocialskillssub-dimensionalsoincrease. Parents' attitudesandbehaviorshave a relationshipwithstudents' life satisfactionandsocialskills.As the total scores of thestudents' Çöydö friend, environment, school, family, and self dimensionin crease, the total scores of the Messy positivesocial skillssub-dimensionalsoincrease. Itshowsthat as individuals' life satisfactionincreases, theirsocialskilllevelsin crease. Keywords: Attitude, parentalattitude, satisfaction, life satisfaction, skill, socialskill.