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Adolescent well being: Relative contributions of social emotional learning and microsystem supports

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In this study, the role of social emotional learning and microsystem supports on the well-being of adolescents studying at the high school level was examined. It has been assumed that microsystem supports and social emotional learning created within the framework of the ecological approach have an important variance in explaining well-being in adolescents. A total of 1110 high school students, 560 male (50.5%) and 550 female (49.5%) participated in the study (Ageort = 15.52, sd = 0.85). A predictive relationship was found between peer relationships, parent engagement, self-regulation, social emotional learning and well-being. In addition to all these results, all these factors significantly explained the variance of well-being. Another important result is that SEL mediates between well being and ecological factors. This is proof that primarily supports social emotional learning is shaped by ecological factors. These findings are discussed in terms of the advantages of social emotional learning and microsystem support in order to increase the well-being of adolescents.

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FK and SÖ agreed jointly on setting the objectives of the research, how to collect the data and determine which analysis to apply. FK and SÖ played an active role in completing the study. While FK worked to get the ethics committee approvals and the official permission work for the implementation of the scales, FK conducted the data collection process. Examination of the suitability of the collected data for analysis was carried out by FK. The findings and discussion sections of the research were written by FK and SÖ. The introduction and methodology parts were written by FK and SÖ made proofreading of these parts. This study was produced from the first author’s doctoral thesis.

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Kaşıkcı, F., Öğülmüş, S. Adolescent well being: Relative contributions of social emotional learning and microsystem supports. Soc Psychol Educ (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-023-09852-5

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