NCT06849310

Emotional Management in Adolescents

Intervention Protocol: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Emotion Regulation Program for Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ankara Medipol University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to give information about the content of the school-based emotion regulation program study designed for adolescent children to develop their emotion regulation skills. The study is a randomized controlled trial with adolescents aged 14-16 years (9th and 10th grade). Two high schools were selected for the research in Ankara, Türkiye. A face-to-face formal training consisting of four modules of four weeks (50 min/week). Based on the Vibrational Energy Theory, the program will be applied to the intervention group to be selected by the randomization method. The training topics include recognizing and accepting emotions, directed thinking and process orientation, and acceptance and willingness (reinforcement module) modules. With this intervention, adolescents' emotion regulation skills and psychological well-being are expected to increase, and anxiety levels will decrease. The program to be implemented will contribute to the acquiring and developing emotion regulation skills that deal with processes such as awareness, control, management, and acceptance of emotions in adolescents. Key Words: adolescence, emotion, regulation, school

Conditions

• Emotional Regulation
• Examining the Emotion Regulation Effectiveness to be Given to Adolescents

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Group that will receive emotional regulation training	The content of the program is based on the current literature (Dennison, 2024; Holmqvist Larsson et al., 2020; Kara \& Yüksel, 2022; Kılıçarslan \& Varol, 2023; Siegel \& Brayson, 2021; Vafaei et al., 2021) for four weeks, once a week (average 50 minutes/week). The module on noticing emotions, which will be applied in the first week, is aimed at adolescents to think about and notice emotions. The content of the training will include determining the beliefs and effects of the group members about emotions, teaching the nature of all emotions and the function of adaptation, distinguishing between emotions and thoughts, teaching similar and opposite emotions, and situations that contribute to the positivity of the emotional state.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-03-10
• Primary completion: 2025-04-07
• Completion: 2025-04-07
• First posted: 2025-02-27
• Last updated: 2025-08-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)