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Relationship between parental attitudes in raising children and personality types
Authors: Leman İnanç , Merih Altıntaş, Tülay Barış
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Aim of this research is to examine the relationship between parental attitudes in raising children and personality types. This research conducted with 500 volunteer parents whom have kids in randomly selected private preschools in İstanbul. The research data were collected using the "International Personality Inventory Short Version" and the "Parent Attitude Scale" and the data were analyzed by Descriptive Statistical Methods (Frequency, Percent, Average, Standard deviation) and Pearson Regression analysis with SPSS 23.0 package program. As the result of the research following were found; parents with democratic parental attitude were positively correlated with extraversion, docility, conscientiousness, openness to experience personality traits; and negatively correlated with hostility, disorganization, emotional instability and being closed to new ideas personality traits. Parents with authoritarian parental attitude were positively correlated with introversion, hostility, disorganization, emotinal instability, being closed to new ideas personality traits; and negatively correlated with extraversion, docility, conscientiousness, openness to experience personality traits. Parents with overprotective parental attitude positively correlated with conscientiousness, emotional instability, and openness to experience personality traits; and negatively correlated with disorganization and being closed to new ideas personality traits. Lastly parents with permissive parental attitude positively correlated with hostility, disorganization and emotional instability personality traits