Kültürün, ebeveyne ve akrana bağlanmanın ve ebeveyn akran yönetimi uygulamalarının Türk üniversite öğrencilerinin arkadaşlık niteliğindeki rolünün incelenmesi

High quality friendships have been associated with psychosocial well-being of adolescents; therefore, it is important to find the potential contributing factors in the process of becoming mentally healthy individuals. There is an increasing number of studies examining the amount of time and activities shared among peers through early and middle adolescence. However, there are limited numbers of studies focusing on friendship quality in late adolescence. The purpose of the current study was to examine the role of culture, attachment to parents and peers, and parental peer management practices on the positive and negative friendship quality. Also, age, sex, and family SES in friendship qualities were added as control variables in this study. Positive friendship quality involved companionship, security, help, and closeness shared in dyadic interactions. Negative friendship quality included the amounts of conflicts experienced in mutual associations. The total of 719 university students (402 females, 317 males) with the mean age of 19.71 (SD = 1.23) ranging from 16.97 to 22.90 years from Bolu and Ankara participated in the present study. The data collection tools were as follows: Friendship Qualities Scale (Bukowski, Hoza, & Boivin, 1994), Individualistic-Collectivistic Views of Family Scale (Hui, 1988), Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (Armsden & Greenberg, 1987), and Parental Management of Peers Inventory (Mounts, 2002). Two separate hierarchical regression analyses were conducted for positive and negative friendship quality. Results showed that there was a sex difference in terms of positive and negative friendship quality. Accordingly, female students scored higher in the positive friendship quality while male scored higher in negative friendship quality. Parental support for peer relations, attachment to peers, and collectivistic values were positive predictors of positive friendship quality. Prohibiting from parents positively and peer attachment negatively predicted negative friendship quality. In addition to these findings, regression analysis demonstrated the mediator role of peer attachment on the association between parent attachment and friendship qualities. We conducted a mediation analysis by controlling for age, sex, and family SES, even though it was not our research question. Results supported the mediator role of peer attachment on the relationship between parent attachment and positive and negative friendship quality. Our findings suggested the significant role of culture, parents, and peers on the socialization process of adolescents. Therefore, future studies examining friendship qualities should focus on how to foster positive parent and peer associations considering the importance of culture. Key Words: positive friendship quality, negative friendship quality, individualistic values, collectivistic values, peer management, parent, and peer attachment