Abstract
The goal of this research is to analyze the predictive power level of parent educational background, parent profession and suppression and reappraisal strategies, which are the emotion regulation strategies, on life satisfaction of individuals. Multiple Linear Regression model is used in the study whose research group is made of 422 students from a University, which has a total of 28,000 students, situated in the East of Turkey. Students in the research group are from different grades and demographic features. “Emotion Regulation Scale”, “Satisfaction with Life Scale”, and “Personal Information Form” are used in gathering the data of the research.
Highlights
There has been an increasing interest in positive psychology concepts in recent years
The goal of this study is to research if emotion regulation strategies vary according to parent profession, educational background and income level and to determine the prediction power of suppression, reappraisal dimensions of emotion regulation strategies, parent profession, parent educational background and parent income level on life satisfaction; at the end of the researches, it was determined that reappraisal strategy, parent profession, educational background and income level directly predict life satisfaction
When the similar researches, which support the result of this study, in the literature are analyzed, it can be seen that Özbay, Palancı, Kandemir and Çakır (2012) found that the most significant predictive variable of subjective wellbeing of university students is emotion regulation
Summary
There has been an increasing interest in positive psychology concepts in recent years. Researches about concepts like happiness, hope, optimism, subjective wellbeing, motivation, academic success and life satisfaction have been increasing besides researches on some ignored concepts like emotion and emotion regulation. The science of psychology that analyses the problems of human beings such as unhappiness and mental health, has turned towards concepts like happiness, subjective wellbeing, life satisfaction (Diener, 1984), and emotion regulation (Öner, 1996; Gross, 1999; Çalışır, 2009). William James (1884) defines emotion as a kind of psychological and physical expression. He states that emotion is a pure mental situation. Emotions serve to the life struggle of individual with their
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