Abstract
Friendship Relationships and Peer Deviation in Adolescents
The aim of this study is to examine friendship relations and peer deviation in adolescents. The study group consisted of 500 adolescents from secondary school grades 7 and 8. The "Friendship Relations Scale" and "Peer Deviation Scale" were used to collect data. Mann Whitney U., Kruskal Wallis H-Tests and Spearman Brown Correlation Analysis were used to analyze the data. As a result of the research, it has been determined that peer deviation of males is higher than that of females. It has been determined that female teenagers have more reliability and identification in friendship relations, and male teenagers open themselves more in friendship relations. It is found that there is no significant difference between the number of siblings and the age of the mother and father with peer deviation and friendship relations in teenagers (p>0.05). It is found that the mother's education status has not affected the peer deviation; although devotion rate in friendship relations was higher for teenagers whose mothers graduated from primary school than for others. Also it is found that there is a significant relation between peer deviation with friendship relations.
Keywords
Peer Diversion, Friendship Relationships, Adolescence Period
