“…stated that positive or negative experiences in childhood lead to the development of many realistic or unrealistic beliefs and thoughts about individuals, their environment, and their future, and also this significantly affects the mental health of individuals in their later life. Positive childhood experiences enable individuals to be psychologically strong in the future and create a positive perception of their own selves (Çiçek and Çeri, 2021;Bingöl, 2018). Negative childhood experiences can be listed under ten headings as emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect, parental separation or divorce, violence in the family, substance abuse in family members, mental health diseases in family members, imprisonment of one of the household members (Baltaş, 2022;Felitti, Anda, Nordenberg, Williamson, Spitz, Edwards, Koss and Marks, 1998;Pekdoğan, 2017;Büyükcebeci, 2019).…”