The coronavirus pandemic has caused intense anxiety in people and has brought many changes in daily life. Emerging adults, one of the groups experiencing anxiety, also turned to social media tools in order to socialize with others and follow the agenda, and overuse brought an increase in social media addiction. Considering that life satisfaction is a mediating variable in coping with the anxiety experienced during the pandemic and in the use of social media, it is aimed to examine the mediating role of life satisfaction in the relationship between Covid-19 anxiety and social media addiction. It has been observed that there is a moderately positive relationship between coronavirus anxiety and social media addiction, high negative relationship between coronavirus anxiety and life satisfaction, and high negative relationship between social media addiction and life satisfaction. As a result of the mediation analysis, while coronavirus anxiety had positive effect on social media addiction, the indirect effect of coronavirus anxiety on social media addiction was also found to be significant, and life satisfaction partially mediated the effect of coronavirus anxiety on social media addiction. Coronavirus anxiety and life satisfaction explained 41% of the change in social media addiction. As a result of the bootstrapping process, it can be said that life satisfaction has a partial mediating role in the relationship between coronavirus anxiety and social media addiction in emerging adults.

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In this study, it is aimed to examine the relationships between the well-being, spiritual intelligence and attitudes of adolescents living in Turkey towards violence. The sample of the study consists of 466 high school students (194 girls, 272 boys) aged between 14 and 19, selected using the convenience sampling method. In the study, “Scale for Spiritual Intelligence”, “Five-Dimensional Well-being for Adolescents (EPOCH) Scale” and “Attitude towards Violence Scale for Adolescents” and demographic information form were used as measurement tools. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to test the predictiveness of adolescents’ well-being and spiritual intelligence on their attitudes towards violence. According to the findings obtained from the research, there is a moderately negative and significant relationship between attitude towards violence and well-being. It is seen that there is a low negative and significant relationship between attitude towards violence and spiritual intelligence. It was identified that there is a moderate positive and significant relationship between well-being and spiritual intelligence scores. The well- being variable explaining 32% of the attitude scores towards violence was first included in the staged multiple regression analysis performed. And in the second stage, the spiritual intelligence variable, which contributes 2% to the explained variance, was also included. When the total variance explained is examined, it is seen that the variables of well-being and spiritual intelligence together explain 34% of the total variance in the attitude scores towards violence. This finding shows us that the change in well-being and spiritual intelligence scores predicts the change in the scores of the attitude towards violence.

In this study, it is aimed to examine the test anxiety and psychological resilience of twelfth grade students who receive online education during the pandemic process in terms of various variables and participant views. The sample of the study consisted of 401 high school students who were selected using the appropriate sampling method. In the study, Westside Exam Anxiety Scale, Psychological Resilience Scale for Children and Youth, Personal Information Form and Semi-Structured Interview Form were used as data collection tools. As a result of the findings obtained from the study, it was observed that the exam anxiety experienced by female students while continuing their online education process was higher than that of male students, but their psychological resilience did not differ significantly according to the gender variable. It was observed that test anxiety scores did not differ significantly according to the school type variable, but psychological resilience scores showed a significant difference. What students call test anxiety, fear of failure and excitement during the Covid-19 process; anxiety increased and they could not concentrate on exams; what they describe as psychological resilience as being strong, being happy and being solid It has been found that they do sports, listen to music and spend time with their families in order to maintain their psychological resilience, and also try to stay away from using social media.

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