Volume 29, Issue 5, 2020
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.1182
The Relationship between Solution Focused Thinking, Emotion Regulation, Hopelessness and Happiness Level in Adolescents, According to the State of Belief that School Success Carries the Future Goals
Abstract
This study scrutinizes the relationship between the belief of carrying school success to future goals and solution-oriented thinking, emotion regulation, hopelessness and happiness levels in adolescents. In Samsun province in Turkey, study was applied officially on adolescents studying in high school. The population of this research is 63,309 students (adolescents). The study group is a quantitative study using the random sampling method, consisting of a total of 573 individuals, 293 female and 280 male. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 21.0 and AMOS 21.0 software were used for data analysis. T test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used in data analysis, and Tukey test was used as a post-hoc test. The Pearson test was used to determine the correlations between the scores obtained from the Solution Focused Inventory (SFI), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), and the Oxford Happiness Scale (OHS), and a model was created to reveal the predictive relationships of the variables in the study. Results indicate that the scores of students who believe that school success carries on future goals are lower than the scores of students who do not believe that school success carries on to future goals. Students who believe that school success leads to future goals have higher overall SFI and Goal scores than students who do not believe that school success carries on to future goals. BHS scores of students who believe that school success carries on to future goals are lower than other students' scores. OHS scores of students who believe that school success carries on to future goals are higher than the scores of other students. This study is the first study to examine the beliefs of carrying school success to future goals in adolescents and the relationships between DERS, SFI, BHS and OHS. This research Samsun in Turkey is limited to adolescents studying in public high schools. These issues should be taken into account when generalizing with other provinces and countries. With this model, which reveals the DERS, SFI, BHS and OHS relationships in adolescents, it sheds light on research, development, and teaching and guidance studies to be realized.
Keywords
Adolescent, solution focused inventory, emotion regulation, hopelessness, happiness. Perceived school success, belief of carrying the future goals