Iran Journal of Nursing

  This survery investigated the secondary school students attitude regarding parent- adolescent inter-relationships. The study covered 19 town districts in Tehran.

  Following a multi-stage process 150 girls and boys attending secondary school with an age range of 13-15 years were selected randomly.

  A two parts questionnaire was developed. The first part covered information on personal and social characteristic of the subjects, and the second part measured the secondary school students (girls and boys) attitude toward parents-adolescent inter-relationships boys as well as girls.

  The finding were presented in 28 tables and one graph. used further X².

  The result showed that in general the attitude of most students (68%) were positive, and more detailed measurement revealed that 84.4% of the 13 years old group, 67.2% of the 14 years old group and 58.5% of the 15 years old group had positive attitude toward their parents relationships with themselves. The measurement of students, attitude according to sex also showed that 74.6% of the boys had a positive attitude and only 25.5% expressed a negative attitude while among the girls 61.4% had positive and 38.6% had negative attitude. yet statistically no significant difference was inferred. further analysis revealed that age and attitude towards parents are conversely correlated (P<0.05) and older subjects indicated more negative attitude. There was also a significant correlation between the fathers profession and the students, attitude towards parent-adolescent inter-relationships.