Abstract:

In this study, it was aimed to investigate the impact of the education program on subjective well-being of adolescents. The “Family Interaction Training Program" was instructed once a week for 16 weeks. The present study was planned as quasi-experimental research. Among the adolescents who participated in the training program, 92 adolescents, 46 adolescents with single-parent families and 46 adolescents with both parents, were included the study group. Adolescent Subjective Well-being Scale was used as a pre-test and post-test for data collection purposes. Kruskal Wallis-H and Mann Whitney-U tests were used in data analysis The study findings demonstrated that the adolescents’ subjective well-being scale scores were not affected by the gender variable. The positive emotions subscale pretest scores of the seventh and eighth grade adolescents were significantly higher when compared to those of the 5th and 6th graders and all subscale pretest scores of adolescents with both parents were significantly higher when compared to the mean scores of the adolescents with broken families and it was determined that these differences in scores were eliminated after the training program. It was concluded that the “Family Interaction Education Program” applied in the study had a positive impact on the subjective well-being levels of adolescents.

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