The presumption of childhood psychological traumas on parental attitudes

In order to examine the effect of parents' own childhood traumas during their childhood and adolescence on their child raising attitude; a set of data was collected from 902 parents with children between the ages 2-6 who attend to preschool classes under the primary schools of Ministery of National Education Council, independent kindergartens and private preschool education institutions. The study used Childhood Psychologic Trauma Questionnarie and Parental Attitudes Scale; the collected data was analyzed with IBM SPSS 23.0 program. Frequency and percentage rate were used for categorical variables and regression analysis was used in order to detect the reasonal relation between the dependent and independent variables. Regression analysis had used in order to detec the relation between dependent and independent variables. At the end of the research, it was found that there is a significant relation between the parents’ child rasing attitudes and their own childhood traumas. According to this, these were found that emotional and physical abuse predict democratic and overprotective attitude, emotional neglect and physical abuse predict authoritarian attitude; pyhsical abuse, emotinal neglect and sexual abuse predict permissive attitude significantly in a positive dimention.