Abstract

This study examines adolescents, their emotion regulation skills, strategies to increase subjective well-being, and the effect of grief on their risk behaviors. The study group consists of 865 high school adolescents between the ages of 14-18. In the data collection process, Risk Behavior Scale, The Adolescent Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, the Subjective Well-Being Increasing Scale for Adolescents, the Grief Scale, and the Personal Information Form were used. In the analysis of the data, the Independent Sample t-Test, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, and ANCOVA analysis were used. As a result of the study, it was found that adolescents' risk behaviors differ significantly by gender; and that there is a significant relationship between risk behaviors and grief level, emotion regulation skills, and strategies to increase subjective well-being. It was determined that adolescents' grief levels are effective on their risk behaviors, and strategies to increase their emotion regulation skills and subjective well-being have multiple effects on the orientation of adolescents to risk behaviors during the grief process. These results are thought to contribute to the prevention and intervention process of adolescent risk behaviors.

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  • IntroductionAn individual who enters adolescence is expected to prepare for adulthood, to fulfill their social and individual responsibilities, and to make decisions that will determine the future period of their life (Erikson, 1994; Koç, 2004; Renk & Creasey, 2003)

  • An individual who enters adolescence is expected to prepare for adulthood, to fulfill their social and individual responsibilities, and to make decisions that will determine the future period of their life (Erikson, 1994; Koç, 2004; Renk & Creasey, 2003).Adolescents have to both fulfill these developmental tasks and cope with the losses they encounter

  • It was found in this study that adolescents' risk behaviors differ significantly by gender and that there is a significant relationship between adolescents' risk behaviors and their grief level, emotion regulation skills, and strategies to increase subjective well-being

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Introduction

An individual who enters adolescence is expected to prepare for adulthood, to fulfill their social and individual responsibilities, and to make decisions that will determine the future period of their life (Erikson, 1994; Koç, 2004; Renk & Creasey, 2003). Adolescents have to both fulfill these developmental tasks and cope with the losses they encounter. As a matter of fact, adolescents may face several loss experiences during this period and may have difficulty coping This situation puts them in a more risky position in terms of adaptation problems and problem behaviors. Among the protective factors for adolescents, these positive factors such as having positive family relationships (Monastreio, 2002), high academic achievement and academic goals (Taşkın & Çuhadaroğlu-Çetin, 2006), high self-confidence (Steinberg, 2017), high subjective well-being ( Positive variables such as Hoyt, Chase-Lansdale, McDade, & Adam, 2012), presence of emotion control skills (Schreiber, Grant, & Odlaug, 2012), and the presence of healthy environmental conditions (Alikaşifoğlu, 2008) are frequently emphasized

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