Abstract
This study was conducted to determine the predictive effect of the features (scale scores) related to the factors that affect social exclusion, friendship quality, social competence and emotional management skills in adolescents on adolescent problem behaviors such as smoking, alcohol use, unhappiness, hopelessness and self-harm behaviors. This research was carried out on 422 students studying at 9th, 10th and 11th grades in 11 high schools randomly selected among the state Anatolian high schools of Kadıköy with the permission of Istanbul Governorship MNE No: 59090411-20-E.4519169 dated 21.04.2016. Data were collected through Social Exclusion, Friendship Quality, Social Competence and Emotional Management Scales and personal information form prepared by the researcher. The data were analyzed with SPSS 23 statistical software, two-way ANOVA (univariate) and logistic regression techniques. The findings showed that on the features related to social exclusion, social competence, friendship quality and emotional management skills, the following were effective: having smoker friends, having friends with negative behaviors towards others, dissatisfaction with physical appearance, perception of self-efficacy, getting along with friends, being sensitive towards daily events, having smoker family members and alcohol use the family, experiencing less economic problems in the family and participating in activities such as cinema with the family. The quality of friendship intimacy had an increasing effect on smoking and alcohol use, while the security dimension had a reducing effect on alcohol use, feeling unhappy, feeling hopeless and self-harm (bodily damage). The social exclusion, emotional management and coping with the problem dimensions had a diminishing effect on alcohol use, while negative emotions and the ability to control negative bodily reactions had a diminishing effect on self-harm behaviors. The findings suggest that, especially emotional management skills, friendship quality and social exclusion are dynamics that can determine the psycho-social risk susceptibility of adolescents. The results of the research reveal the importance of getting adolescents to gain the skills to manage friendship selection and friendship relations through studies aimed at supporting the emotional development of adolescents.
Highlights
A human being is a social entity that defines and maintains his/her existence through others
When the findings of the research are evaluated in general, it can be deduced that social exclusion, friendship quality and emotional management skills can be protective factors for the problem behaviors of young people, and it is seen that the findings support the relevant literature and research findings
One of the main aims of the study is to determine the prediction levels of adolescents' social exclusion, friendship quality, social competence and emotional management skills on risk behaviors according to risk-taking behavior theory, externalized behavior and adaptation problems according to problem behavior theory, smoking, alcohol use and unhappiness, hopelessness, feeling bad and self-harm within the internal problem behavior category
Summary
A human being is a social entity that defines and maintains his/her existence through others. The differentiating needs in each period of development require a change of positions, roles and duties of others, who are parents in the first years of life, teachers in childhood, peers in adolescence (Brown, 2004) and emotional partners (spouse) and colleagues in young adulthood. Adolescence is the preparation stage for the period where decisions and outcomes depend on the individual, from the period of young adulthood until the end of life. One of the characteristic features of adolescence is the change in the positions of social environmental agents at the center of life. The role definitions of the family and the peers are differentiated, and peers are placed at the center of Journal of Education and Training Studies
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