The Effectiveness of a Program to Increase the Subjective Well-being of Adolescents Whose Parents Are Divorced

Asiye Dursun; Ali Eryılmaz

doi:10.17860/mersinefd.521307

The Effectiveness of a Program to Increase the Subjective Well-being of Adolescents Whose Parents Are Divorced

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a program to increase the level of subjective well-being of adolescents whose parents were divorced. This study was carried out among students at a vocational high school in Turkey. It was conducted with 18 adolescents attending a vocational high school, nine in the experimental group and nine in the control group. The study implemented its experimental design with both a control and an experimental group. The Positive- Negative Affect and Satisfaction with Life Scales were used. Other measures were also used to evaluate the short-term effects of the program. To examine the effectiveness of the program, the Wilcoxon sign-rank test, the Mann-Whitney U test and repeated-measure analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used. The program was effective for increasing adolescents’ subjective well-being and adjustment in both the short and the long terms. The program could be used for adolescents whose parents will divorce in the future.

Keywords: Adolescent, divorce, subjective well-being

Keywords

Adolescents,divorce,parents,subjective well-being

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Research Article

Authors

Asiye Dursun ^*
0000-0002-4033-0034
Türkiye

Ali Eryılmaz
0000-0001-9301-5946
Türkiye

Publication Date

August 26, 2019

Submission Date

February 2, 2019

Acceptance Date

May 28, 2019

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Year 2019 Volume: 15 Number: 2

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Dursun, A., & Eryılmaz, A. (2019). The Effectiveness of a Program to Increase the Subjective Well-being of Adolescents Whose Parents Are Divorced. Mersin Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, 15(2), 491-510. https://doi.org/10.17860/mersinefd.521307

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1.Dursun A, Eryılmaz A. The Effectiveness of a Program to Increase the Subjective Well-being of Adolescents Whose Parents Are Divorced. MEUJFE. 2019;15(2):491-510. doi:10.17860/mersinefd.521307

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Dursun, Asiye, and Ali Eryılmaz. 2019. “The Effectiveness of a Program to Increase the Subjective Well-Being of Adolescents Whose Parents Are Divorced”. Mersin Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi 15 (2): 491-510. https://doi.org/10.17860/mersinefd.521307.

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Dursun A, Eryılmaz A (August 1, 2019) The Effectiveness of a Program to Increase the Subjective Well-being of Adolescents Whose Parents Are Divorced. Mersin Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi 15 2 491–510.

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[1]A. Dursun and A. Eryılmaz, “The Effectiveness of a Program to Increase the Subjective Well-being of Adolescents Whose Parents Are Divorced”, MEUJFE, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 491–510, Aug. 2019, doi: 10.17860/mersinefd.521307.

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Dursun, Asiye - Eryılmaz, Ali. “The Effectiveness of a Program to Increase the Subjective Well-Being of Adolescents Whose Parents Are Divorced”. Mersin Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi 15/2 (August 1, 2019): 491-510. https://doi.org/10.17860/mersinefd.521307.

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1.Dursun A, Eryılmaz A. The Effectiveness of a Program to Increase the Subjective Well-being of Adolescents Whose Parents Are Divorced. MEUJFE. 2019;15:491–510.

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Dursun, Asiye, and Ali Eryılmaz. “The Effectiveness of a Program to Increase the Subjective Well-Being of Adolescents Whose Parents Are Divorced”. Mersin Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 15, no. 2, Aug. 2019, pp. 491-10, doi:10.17860/mersinefd.521307.

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1.Asiye Dursun, Ali Eryılmaz. The Effectiveness of a Program to Increase the Subjective Well-being of Adolescents Whose Parents Are Divorced. MEUJFE. 2019 Aug. 1;15(2):491-510. doi:10.17860/mersinefd.521307

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