Emotional Management in Adolescents

NCT ID: NCT06849310

Last Updated: 2025-08-29

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 80 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-03-10
• Study Completion Date: 2025-04-07

Brief 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

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Participants who will receive emotion regulation training.

This study was planned as a randomized controlled trial. The 9th and 10th grades of two high schools with the same status in the capital of Türkiye will constitute the sample of the research.Adolescents will be randomized as an intervention and control group after stratification according to the mean score of the scale, gender (girls/boys), and grades (9th and 10th grades). Letters will be given to the intervention and control groups. According to the coin toss method, the letter A will be given to the initiative group and the letter B will be given to the control group. Randomization will be performed by a statistician independent of the research using the www.randomizer.org site. Adolescents will not be informed that they will be an intervention or control group. Criteria for inclusion in the research; (a) continuing their education in the 9th-10th grade, (b) agreeing to participate in the study, (c) giving written consent to participate in the study by their parents, (d) stating t

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Group that will receive emotional regulation training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

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.

Participants who will receive no intervention

All forms will be administered to adolescents in the control group twice, before and after the program (except for the descriptive characteristic data form). After the study is completed, the control group will be given the same training and written material.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• . Criteria for inclusion in the research;

• continuing their education in the 9th-10th grade,
• agreeing to participate in the study,
• giving written consent to participate in the study by their parents,
• stating that they can participate in the four-week program,
• speaking Turkish.

Exclusion Criteria

• The criteria for exclusion from the study were:

• the student has a medically diagnosed mental problem that will prevent the student from following the program,
• the student has a psychological medical diagnosis, and
• he/she is receiving psychiatric medication or therapy.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 14 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 16 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Gazi University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Ankara Medipol University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Merve Oral

Lecturer

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Ankara Medipol Üniversity

Ankara, Ankara, Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Related Links

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Related Info

Other Identifiers

E-14588481-605.99-101274183

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id