During the COVID-19, the relationships among family members and the stress that accompanied have increasingly affected families. The first aim of this study is to test the effects of marital adjustment, perceived stress and parental self-efficacy of married couples on family resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. The second aim of this study is to investigate whether or not family resilience, perceived stress, parental self-efficacy and marital adjustment differentiate depending on demographic and other variables in the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants consisted of 241 married individuals with at least one child between 4 and 18 years old, and data were collected online. It was found that when perceived stress increased, parental self-efficacy and marital adjustment decreased; besides, this perceived stress indirectly influenced family resilience through parental self-efficacy and marital adjustment. Similarly, it was found that pregnant participants experienced higher level of perception of stress during the COVID-19 period. It was found that the family resilience of participants who got support within the family was higher than participants who got support from outside the family. However, no differences were found between males and females. In stressful processes like the COVID-19 pandemic, each sub-system of the family (individual, couple and parent) has a significant role in the resilience level of the family as a whole. Future studies focus on experimental and can focus on programs prepared for family resilience. Intervention programs can be prepared related to stress perception, parental skills and marital adjustment of married couples and their influence on family resilience can be searched.

In this study it is aimed to investigate the effects of parental attitude on young adults' emotional management skills. Correlational research model was used to analyze the data. The study group consists of 170 young adults whose ages ranged from 20 to 36 in central district of Ankara. To gather the data, "Emotional Management Skill Scale" and "Parental Attitude Scale" were used. Multiple regression analysis was performed to predict the determinants of young adults' emotional skills. Emotional Management Skill Scale Points' are the dependent variable of this study also the independent variables of this study are the subscales points of Parental Attitude Scale. According to the result of investigation three independent variables which are authoritative, over parenting and authoritarian parental styles predict emotional management skills. Authoritative and authoritarian parental style effects emotional management skills positively whereas over parenting style effects negatively. Findings discussed according to contribution of handled determinants and appropriate suggestions were recommended for future researches.

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The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of coping with stress on life satisfaction of old people. This study was carried out on old individuals aged between 60 and 95 years old and 68 women and 57 men participated to the study from Ankara and Bursa. Ways of Coping Questionnaire and Life Satisfaction Scale were used as data collection tools. Correlational research design was used and multiple regression analysis was performed. The analysis results indicated that submissive approach negatively, optimistic and seeking of social support positively predict life satisfaction (R=0,47, R2=0,22 ve p<.00). Old people's using optimistic and seeking of social support methods while dealing with stress increase their life satisfaction. This study is going to support intervention programs of old people.