Examining university students' feelings of the inadequacy in the context of their relationship with their parents and friendship quality

Abstract

The aim of this research was to investigate the predictive role of parental relationships and friendship quality in the feelings of the inadequacy of the university students. A total of 461 university students, including 261 women and 200 men, were the samples of the study. In the study, personal information form, Friendship Quality Scale, Inadequacies Sense Scale and Parent-Adolescent Relationship Quality Scale were used as data collection tools. Pearson moments product correlation technique, multiple regression analysis and hierarchical regression analysis techniques were used on the data to test the objectives of the research. Looking at the statistical analyses; it has been observed that the feelings of inadequacy decrease significantly as young adults experience closeness and acceptance in friendship relationships. When young adults' positive relationships with their parents increased, feelings of inadequacy decreased and feelings of inadequay increased as negative relationships increased. As a result of the multiple regression analysis, it was observed that friendship quality scale subsize points together significantly exhausted the inadequaty sense scores of young adults. As a result of the multiple regression analysis, it was determined that the sub-dimension scores of family relations quality significantly exhausted the inadequacy sense scores of young adults together. While both the positive relationships they established with their fathers and the sense of acceptance they received from their friends were considered important in the feelings of inadequace of young adults, it was determined that the positive relationships established with the father were the strongest exhausting variables in the feelings of inadequacy of young adults.