Last modified: 2017-03-24
Abstract
Pre-adolescence period is an important developmental period that increase needs to gain prestige and status in society. In this period, the individual looks for a group that belongs to and making a great effort to comply with the norms of this group. The most important feature of adolescents who successfully passed pre-adolescent process that distinguished from other adolescents are quality of relationship with both their parents and peers. Especially during the first years of life and in adolescence period, the family environment and parental attitudes play an important role on the development of the personality. At the same time, this process takes turn both personality and social development as well as affects the whole life of the individual. In the process of pre-adolescence which is the beginning of the transition from childhood to adulthood the influence of the parents continious but mostly the peer relations comes into prominence. Considering these chracteristic in the period of pre-adolescens, it plays a significant role how adolescents perceive their parents’ attitudes and peer relations in the development of a healthy personality in the future life . For this reason in this research, it was aimed to investigate the relationship between peer perception and parental attitude perception of 12 to 15 yerars old chidren in pre-adolescence period in terms of various variables. The sample group of the research was conducted in the relational screening model consisted of 500 adolescents who selected by simple random sampling method and were educated in secondary schools attached to the Ministry of National Education located in the city of Ankara in Turkey. In this research "Generalized Peer Perception Scale" as a process of measure to the peer relations that they perceive and "Parental Attitude Scale" as a process of measure to parental attitudes perceived by individuals were used. The data collection process of research has been completed but the statistical analysis is still in progress.
Key Words: pre-adolescense, peer perception, parent attitude