Abstract

• The main purpose of this study was to investigate parent-adolescent conflict and psychological well being among education degree college Student Teachers. The quantitative research design and survey method were used in this study. A total of 700 (male=226 and female=474 student teachers were randomly chosen from HPEDC, MEDC, YEDC and TEDC. Quantitative, descriptive research design and survey method were used in this study. The questionnaires were used to collect demographic information of the participants such as gender, education level, subject combination and college. Parent-adolescent Conflict questionnaire, the students adopted to parent-adolescent conflict scale; developed by Wohabie Birhan (2007) consisting of 32 items was used to measure parent-adolescent conflict of Education Degree College students and psychological well-being scale (PWB) consisting of 42 items was applied to measure the psychological well-being of Education Degree College Student Teachers. Both the descriptive and independent samples t test and ANOVA were carried out. The result of independent samples t test showed that there was significant difference in parent-adolescent conflict by gender, education level. Female student teachers had significantly higher than that of male student teachers in parent-adolescent conflict. ANOVA showed that there was significant difference in parent-adolescent conflict by college. This study found that there was no significant difference on parent-adolescent conflict of student teachers by subject combination. And Psychological Well-being scale (PWB) developed by Ryff (2014) was used. The result of t test showed that there were no significant differences in psychological well being by gender, education level. But the result of ANOVA showed that there was significant difference in psychological well-being by college. The study found that there was no significant difference in psychological well-being by subject combination. And, the result of correlation analysis revealed that parent-adolescent conflict and psychological well-being was significantly correlated.