THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ SELF EVALUATION, PARENTAL ATTITUDES, AND SOME OTHER VARIABLES

The relationship between predictors of universiti students’ self evaluation such as parental attitudes, and some demographic variables were examined in this study. A total of 726 university students consisted of 3944 males and 332 females participated in this study. “Social Comparison Scale” to measure participants’ self-esteem, “Parental Attitudes Scale” to measure parental attitudes, and “Personal Information Form” developed by the researchers to get personal information of the participants were employed. In data analysis, , Mann-Whitney-U Test, and Kruskal Wallis-H Test were used. The findings indicated significant differences between gender,living in, class degree, low-levels of democratic parental attitudes, high levels of protective/desirous parental attitudes, medium and high levels of autocratic parental attitudes.