Abstract:

This study has studied the ability of social anxiety and emotional autonomy to suppress adolescent violence trends. The research was carried out with students who continue to study in a province in Central Anadolu in the 2018-2019 educational year and age ranges between 13 and 17. The study included a total of 613 students, including 317 (51%) girls and 296 (49%) men. The data of the study was collected using the Social Anxiety Scale for Adults, the Emotional Autonomy Scale, the Violence Trend Scale and the demographic form of information created by the researchers. When the findings of the study are examined, the social anxiety scale has found that there is a meaningful relationship in the positive direction between the 'fear of negative assessment' and the violence tendency points; the emotional self-sufficiency scale has found that there are a meaningful relationship in the negative direction between the 'non-idealization of the child', the 'independence of the child' and the 'individualization' scale and the violence tendency points. However, the study found that adolescents' violence tendency scores vary according to gender and parents' level of education. As a result, the social-demographic information of adolescents, such as gender and parental education, the social anxiety scale is the low-dimensional ‘fear of negative assessment’ and the emotional autonomy scale is the low-dimensional ‘idealization of the child’, ‘dependence from the child’ and ‘individualization’ are the substantial subdimensions of the common tendency to violence. These findings show that it is very important for individuals to control the tendency of violence in adolescence, which represents a critical development process in their identity development, to be able to cope with their social concerns and to be able to provide emotional autonomy in the need for independence from their family.

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