OLAN İLİŞKİSİNİN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ)

This study was conducted to determine the parenting style of the students who attend first grade at 2006-2007 school year in Eskişehir Osmangazi University using discriminant analysis and to determine the relationship between parenting styles and self-esteem. In the present study, The Parenting Style Inventory which was developed by Kuzgun and then revised with some differences was administered to students. The sample of the study consisted of 1st grade students who attend this university at 2006-2007 academic year and 637 form of survey were gathered for analyses. As a result, styles of parents were categorized as four groups (democratic, authoritarian, protective and neglectful parenting style) and the degree of appropriate classifying was determined as very high. The perceptions of students toward themselves were measured by means of Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale. They were examined in the light of two categories which were high self-esteem and low self-esteem. At the end of the classifying, it was found that the most frequent parenting style was democratic style, while the least frequent style was neglectful style. The relationships between the parenting styles determined via discriminant analysis and self-esteem, the number of sisters and brothers and gende