Peer Relations in Adolescence

Peer relations are one of the important social relations in adolescence. The aim of this study is to examine the adolescent individual's peer relations with the variables of gender, attachment to mother and father and social anxiety. The study group of this research consists of 220 girls (61.5%) and 138 boys (38.5%) and 358 high school students in total. The data of the study were collected by the Peer Relations Scale, the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA), the Social Anxiety Scale for the Adolescents and the Demographic Information Form. In this descriptive study, hierarchical regression analysis, which is one of the multiple regression methods, was used to determine the predictors of peer relations. At the same time, a t-test was conducted on independent samples to determine whether high school students' peer relations differed by gender. According to the results of hierarchical regression analysis; gender and attachment to father meaningfully predict peer relations; attachment to mother and social anxiety do not meaningfully predict peer relations. Besides, peer relations differ significantly by gender. These findings of the research were discussed in the light of the literature and suggestions are presented