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The aim of this study is to examine relatinship between adolescent’s problem solving skills and parent attitudes. This research which tries to define relationship between parents’ attitudes and adolescents’ problem solving skills is a descriptive study (relational-screening model). Descriptive model that is used commonly aims to describe the situation. Screening models is research approach that aims to describe the situation as it is (Karasar,2009). The participants were 332 students (176 female and 156 male) attending different high schools in Isparta. In this study, problem solving skills and parent attitudes were measured with Problem Solving Inventory which was developed by Heppner, Şahin ve Şahin (1993) and Parent Attitudes Scale which was developed by Kuzgun ve Bacanlı (2005). Firstly, 384 students were applied to measuring instruments by researchers. But number of students in the study group was declined 332 due to an incomplete or incorrect markings, and participants are 176 female and 156 male students. In this study, students are studied in the 32,8% ninth, 23,2% tenth, 16% eleventh and 28% twelfth grade. The age range of participants are between 15 to 18 and the mean age of 16.8. For data analysis depending upon the variety of data gathered, (t) and (r) correlation tests, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Tukey test were performed. In addition, regression analysis was used to test the effects of parent attitudes and socio-demographic variables on adolescents’ problem solving skills. Results show that adolescents’ problem solving skills were related with parent attitudes. The results also showed that adolescents’ problem solving skills acquired a different character in connection with social demographic variables. Finally regression analyses showed that adolescents’ problem solving skills were predicted by parent attitudes and social demographic variables. Implications of findings were discussed and some suggestions were made.

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