Abstract:

The general objective of this research is to determine whether the level of adolescents’ religious beliefs and cognitive flexibility affect the level of subjective well-being. The method of the research is a predictive relationship (correlational) research model. The study group consists of 198 students from 8 different departments of Marmara University Ataturk Faculty of Education. 105 of these students are female and 93 are male. While collecting the datas; the Level of Religious Belief Scale , the Cognitive Flexibility Scale and the Subjective Well-Being Scale were used. The analysis of the datas were found by the multiple regression analysis in order to examine the effects of the effective variables on the subjective well-being.The level of religious beliefs and cognitive flexibility found to be significant effectives of subjective well-being. The effectiveness of these two variables on subjective well-being were found as 60% . Subjective well-being does not differ by gender, but there are significant differences by the perceived economic level.

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