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

Authors : Asiye Dursun, Ali Eryilmaz

Pages : 491-510

Doi:10.17860/mersinefd.521307

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Publication Date : 2019-08-26

Article Type : Research

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