@article{article_1711938, title={An Investigation of Coping Skills with Stress of High School Students in Terms of Family Communication Patterns}, journal={Participatory Educational Research}, volume={12}, pages={225–236}, year={2025}, DOI={10.17275/per.25.87.12.6}, author={Bedel, Ahmet and Bulut Barkın, Ayşe}, keywords={high school students, coping with stress, family communication}, abstract={Coping with stress skills and having healthy communication within family of high school students are important protective factors in terms of preventive guidance and psychological counseling services. These protective factors can prevent many risk factors such as substance use, violence, school dropout, depression and anxiety. Stress and family communication are within basic study subjects for field workers who are providing services on psychological counseling to adolescents and their relatives. This study aimed to examine high school students’ stress coping skills in terms of family communication patterns. 372 students participated in the study. The Family Communication Patterns Scale and the Coping with Stress Scale were used to collect research data. T-test, ANOVA analysis, Correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis were used to analyze the data. As a result of the analyses, there is a significant and positive relationship only between the dialogue dimension of the students’ family communication patterns and the problem-focused coping and social support coping methods. It was found that the students’ family communication pattern scores significantly predicted the levels of problem-focused coping and seeking social support coping methods. In light of this information, the importance of including individual and group guidance and psychological counseling activities in preventive family communication skills to increase students’ stress coping skills was emphasized and discussed, and suggestions were made for future research on this subject.}, number={6}, publisher={Özgen KORKMAZ}