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- Title
Lise Öğrencilerinde Kişilerarası İlişki Tarzlarının Yordayıcıları.
- Authors
ERÖZKAN, Atılgan
- Abstract
The aim of this study is to determine the factors influencing interpersonal relationship styles of high school students -in the adolescent period which involves very difficult and complex experiences for individuals. In this context, the effects of attachment styles, communication skills, and problem solving skills of a group of high school students on their interpersonal relationship styles were investigated. The other purpose of the study was to present the effects of attachment styles, communication skills, and problem solving skills on the students' interpersonal relationship styles with respect to gender, age, and grades. Interpersonal relationships are a major source of happiness and a buffer against stress. Through interpersonal relationships, individuals receive instrumental help for tasks and challenges, emotional support in their daily lives, and companionship in shared activities. Conversely, the loss of relationship is a source of unhappiness and distress. Interpersonal relationships are also important for social and emotional development. For example, during childhood and adolescence, key aspects of development involve, and rely on, positive relationships. Interpersonal relationships are also a critical factor in young people's engagement and motivation in close relationships. In the context of a high school student's life, positive emotional attachments to parents, peers, and teachers promote not only healthy interpersonal, emotional, and intellectual functioning but also positive feelings of self-worth and self-esteem. Attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969, 1980, 1988) has become one of the most influential frameworks for studying close relationships across the life span, and the study of adult attachment has led to many insights concerning adolescent and adult interpersonal relationships. Attachment theory explains how a person's primary orientation to close relationships arises in the years from infancy through adolescence and what kinds of attachment orientations, or attachment styles, result from particular kinds of experiences in close relationships. Bartholomew and Horowitz (1991), posit two orthogonal dimensions that, in combination, yield four main attachment styles. One dimension measures self-image along a negative or positive continuum; the other measures one's positive or negative image of others. Individuals with a secure attachment (positive self, positive other) are presumed to have internalized a sense of self-worth and a trust that others will be available and supportive; they are autonomous, yet comfortable seeking and expecting support from others. Fearful individuals (negative self, negative other) view others as uncaring and unavailable; they view themselves as unlovable. Fearful individuals avoid intimacy out of fear that they will be hurt by the other person or by eventual abandonment. They have a negative working model of both self and others. Preoccupied individuals (negative self, positive other) are preoccupied with attachment needs and depend overly on others for personal validation, acceptance and approval. They are anxious and clingy in relationships and have a negative working model of self and a positive working model of others. Dismissing individuals (positive self, negative other) distance themselves from others, viewing themselves as self-reliant and invulnerable to rejection by others. Everybody -especially adolescents- needs to communicate and have effective interpersonal relationships skills. Communication is the process of gathering meaning from the world around us and using verbal and non-verbal messages to share this meaning with others. More specifically, interpersonal communication can be defined as; a distinctive, transactual form of human communication involving mutual influence, usually for the purpose of managing relationships.…
- Subjects
INTERPERSONAL relations in adolescence; ATTACHMENT behavior in adolescence; INTERPERSONAL communication in adolescence; PROBLEM solving in adolescence; HIGH school students
- Publication
Selcuk University Social Sciences Institute Journal, 2008, Vol 21, p543
- ISSN
1302-1796
- Publication type
Article