Abstract:

The purpose of the present study is to investigate gender differences and perceived parents attitudes with respect to loneliness and perceived social support. The universe of this study was Çukurova University students. The sample consisted of 521 university students from different faculties (Education, Engineering, Economy, Humanities and Art) at University of Cukurova in 2005–2006 academic year. In this study to examine if there were any significant differences between gender- perceived parents attitudes and loneliness- perceived social support, multivariate statistic technic (MANOVA) was used. Findings indicated that there was no significant differences on loneliness and social support according to gender but there was significant differences according to perceived parents attitudes. Gender main effect indicated that both female and male students experience loneliness and perceived social supportat more or less at the same level. Perceived parents attitudes main effect revealed that democratic parents’ children felt less lonely and they perceived more social support from friends and their family. As a conclusion according to gender there was no significant effect on loneliness and perceived social support but according to perceiving parents attitudes there were significant effect on loneliness and perceived social support.

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