THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MORAL VALUE AND EMOTION REGULATION IN ADOLESCENTS

This study examined the relationship between moral values and emotion regulation skills of individuals in adolescence. The study group consists of 493 individuals attending secondary school's 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades. The Universal Moral Values Scale (TUMVS) and the Emotion Regulation Scale for Adolescents (ERSA) were used to collect data. The spearman-Brown Correlation coefficient, t-Test, Mann Whitney U Test, Kruskal Wallis H Test, and one-way analysis of variance were used in the data analysis, taking into account the normality distribution. In the study, it was determined that as the moral value levels of individuals in adolescence increase, their functional emotion regulation skills increase and their dysfunctional emotion regulation skills decrease. It has been determined that the level of behavioral moral values of girls in adolescence is higher than men and the level of cognitive, behavioral, emotional, universal moral values decreases as the class level rises. It has been determined that the ability of girls to organize intrinsically dysfunctional emotions is higher than male individuals, and the ability to regulate external functional and external non-functional emotions decreases as the class level rises, and the ability to regulate intrinsically dysfunctional emotions increases.