Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to examine submissive behavior automatic thoughts hopelessness and life satisfaction in high school students It is descriptive study comparing the submissive attitudes automatic thoughts hopelessness and life satisfaction in term of gender attitude of parents grade level The sample of the study consisted of voluntary 274 153 girls 121 male adolescents who ongoing different kind of high school For data collection Personal Information Form Submissive Scale Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire The Beck Hopelessness Scale and Life Satisfaction Scale were used For statistical analysis independent groups of “t” test one way anova person product moment correlation were used Research findings suggest that there is a relationship between submissive attitudes automatic thoughts and hopelessness There is no significant difference submissive behavior in terms of gender Whereas there is a significant difference submissive behavior in terms of attitude of parents According to grade level submissive behavior was a significant difference in favor of fourth grade There was observed a significant difference submissive behaviors There were no observed significant difference automatic thoughts scores in term of gender for high school students According to class level automatic thoughts scores was found a significant difference in favor of first and fourth grade There was no significant difference automatic thoughts scores in terms of income level Also there were no difference level of hopelessness in terms of gender parental attitudes grade level and income level There were no differences life satisfaction in terms of gender But there were differences life satisfaction in favor of democratic attitude of the parents in terms of parent attitude In addition there were no difference students’ life satisfaction in terms of students’ grade level There was a significant difference life satisfaction in terms of income in favor of students who had income between 1250 TL to 1001TL Keywords: High school students Submissive behavior Automatic thoughts Hopelessness Life satisfaction

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