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The purpose of this research was to examine the effectiveness of family activities which are improved for the families. In this research, content improved family involvement activities were applied to the families whose children continue their pre-school mothers’ and fathers’ family involvement were compared. Research’s experiment group includes the parents of 16 students who continue their pre-school education. Control group includes the parents of 10 students. Family Involvement Questionnaire (FIQ) has been used to test the effectiveness of family involvement activities. This FIQ measures the family involvement as school-based involvement, home–school conferencing and home-based involvement. In data analyses, the Mann–Whitney U test has been used. FIQ has been answered by all the parents from experiment group and 10 mothers and 6 fathers from the control group. The result of analyses has shown that there is no difference between experiment and control groups’ family involvements. In the experiment group, mothers’ home–school conferencing permanent involvement scores are higher than the fathers’ home–school conferencing involvement scores. The results of the research have been argued, and the suggestions were given to pre-school teachers and related research workers. Keywords: Family involvement, home–school conferencing, pre-school education.

Bu çalışmada, alanyazındaki önceki çalışmalara dayalı olarak üniversite öğrencilerinin cinsiyetlerinin, sınıflarının, genel sağlıklarına ilişkin öz değerlendirmelerinin ve psikolojik sağlamlıklarının iyilik hallerini yordayıp yordamadığı sorusuna yanıt aranmıştır. Bu amaçla iki devlet üniversitesinde öğrenci olan toplam 244 kişiden, İyilik Hali Yıldızı Ölçeği, Ego-Sağlamlık Ölçeği ve kişisel bilgi formu aracılığı ile veri toplanmıştır. Analizler için çoklu ve aşamalı regresyon analizi kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın sonuçları psikolojik sağlamlığın İyilik Hali Yıldızı Ölçeği'nden elde edilen toplam puanla belirlenen genel iyilik halini ve ölçeğin beş alt boyutununu yordadığını göstermektedir. Bu durum psikolojik sağlamlığın iyilik halinin önemli bir yordayıcısı olarak değerlendirilmiştir. Buna ek olarak sınıf değişkeninin genel iyilik halini, yaşamı anlamlandırma/hedef odaklı olma ve bilişsel alt boyutlarını; genel sağlıklarına ilişkin öz değerlendirme değişkeninin duygusal alt boyutu ve cinsiyet değişkeninin ise sosyal alt boyutu yordadığı bulguları da elde edilmiştir. Fiziksel boyutu sadece psikolojik sağlamlık yordamaktadır. Bulgular alanyazın ışığında tartışılmış ve üniversitelerdeki psikolojik danışma etkinlikleri için bazı öneriler sunulmuştur.

The purpose of this research is to examine which factors of personal meaning profile explain mental well-being in different age stage. Although personal meaning has many different definitions, this research approaches it in seven factors; achievement, relationship, religion, self-transcendence, self-acceptance, intimacy, and fair treatment. The participants in this study were 410 (226 female, 184 male) representing three separate groups (Adolescents, emerging adults, and adults). Whether Personal meaning and mental well-being varied based on age was analyzed via ANOVA. Personal Meaning’s predictability of mental well-being was analyzed via multiple regression analysis. First, the mental well-being productivity of personal meaning in the whole group was examined. According to the examination, it was found that all factors except for religion explain mental wellbeing. These factors account for 54% of the variance. Secondly, multiple regression analysis was done for the personal meaning factors for each group. According to results: Achievement, relationship, and self-transcendence in adolescents; achievement, self-transcendence, self-acceptance, intimacy, and fair treatment in emerging adults; and intimacy, self-transcendence, self-acceptance and fair treatment in adults were significant predictors mental well-being. These factors account for 43% of total variance in adolescent, 65% in emerging adults, and 42% in adults.

This study sought to investigate the concept of wellness in high school students and in particular whether such variables as gender, age and life satisfaction impact on adolescent wellness. Data were collected from a sample of 240 high school students. Each of these subjects completed a basic demographic form along with the Adolescent Form of the Wellness Star Scale and Life Satisfaction Scale. Data were analyzed with descriptive analysis, t-test and oneway ANOVA. Results of these analyses failed to reveal significant differences between groups based on the variables of age, gender and life satisfaction about total wellness. The results suggested meaningful differences in social and physical subscales between genders. According to results, females have higher score on social subscale while males have higher score on physical subscale. The results also suggested a meaningful difference in social subscale among age groups. The finding showed that social subscale scores of students become lower with the increase in age. At the same time, no meaningful differences were found among different life satisfaction level in terms of subdimension of wellness. The findings were further examined in light of recent research and implications for counseling with adolescent subjects are discussed.