Διερεύνηση της αυτεπάρκειας έφηβων μαθητών και των γνωστικών, συναισθηματικών στρατηγικών που χρησιμοποιούν σε αρνητικά γεγονότα της ζωής

Abstract

Research findings show that self-efficacy is negatively correlated with depression (Bandura, 1997) and the adolescents’ use of cognitive emotion strategies is suggested to be an important factor of mental health disorders. The present study investigates the self-efficacy of adolescent school students in Greece with the questionnaire SEQ-C (Muris, 2001) and the cognitive emotion strategies they use with the questionnaire CERQ (Garnefski et al., 2007) using a convenience sample of 135 adolescents.

It was found that in comparison with old adolescents, young teenagers used at a greater extent the following strategies: Catastrophising and Blaming others. The cognitive emotion strategies that the participants use differ significantly with respect to their age group, school performance and the father’s educational level. The adolescents’ self-efficacy and the cognitive emotion strategies are positively correlated. Although these findings need to be confirmed by future studies in a larger and representative sample, they indicate that self-efficacy and cognitive emotion strategies can be applied either separately or in conjunction in order to improve the reliability and validity of assessing adolescent depression.