Investigation of attachment styles and psychological resilience of adolescents with fragmented and unfragmented families with some variables

The main purpose of this research is to examine whether the attachment styles and psychological resilience of adolescents with a fragmented and unfragmented families differ according to some variables. Some variables that are meant; are gender, the way the parents live separately, the reason for the breakup, the person who lives together, the age of the breakup, and the state of parental survival. The research consists of high school students currently studying in the Mamak district of Ankara Province. As a sampling method, accessible sampling was used. As a data collection tool, Three Dimensional Attachment Styles Scale, The Child and Adolescent Psychological Resilience Scale (ÇGPSÖ-12) and The Personal Information Form prepared by the researcher were used. The analysis of the data was carried out using the SPSS 21 program. Since the research data did not show a normal distribution, Nonparametric tests were used to find answers to the subproblems of the study. These are; Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis H test. In order to find the relationship between Attachment Styles and Psychological Decisiveness, Spearman's Rank Differences Correlation Coefficient was used. As a result of the analyses, the anxiety-unstable attachment style score averages of adolescents in fragmented families were higher than those of adolescents with non-fragmented families. The psychological resilience score averages of adolescents with a fragmented family were lower than those of adolescents with an fragmented family. While the safe and avoidant attachment style does not differ according to gender in both family structures, it differs in the anxious-unstable attachment style. The psychological resilience score averages of adolescents with a non-fragmented family show a statistically significant difference according to gender, while psychological resilience does not differ significantly in adolescents with a fragmented family. Attachment styles of adolescents with a fragmented family score averages and psychological resilience score averages do not differ depending on the way parents live apart and the reason for the fragmentation. While there is no difference in attachment styles according to the variables of cohabitation, parental survival status and age of disintegration, there is a statistically significant difference between the psychological resilience score averages except for the age of disintegration. A statistically significant relationship was found between psychological resilience and all sub-dimensions of attachment styles.