Well-Being and Spiritual Intelligence Predict Attitudes of Adolescents’ Towards Violence

Authors : Özge ERDURAN TEKİN, Halil EKŞİ

Pages : 301-314

Doi:10.37898/spc.2022.7.3.181

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Publication Date : 2022-10-15

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :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 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(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 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(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.
Keywords : Turkish adolescents Spiritual intelligence Adolescence Well being Violence, Turkish adolescents Spiritual intelligence Adolescence Well being Violence, Turkish adolescents, Spiritual intelligence, Adolescence, Well being, Violence