İnvestigation of the relationship between motives of risk taking, emotion regulation and subjective well-being in adolescents

The aim of this study is to examine the prediction of the motives of risk-taking by the sub-dimensions of emotion regulation and subjective well-being. The participant group of the study, conducted with the relational survey model, consists of a total of 605 high school students, including 291 girls and 308 boys, aged 14-18, studying in 9th, 10th, and 11th grades during the 2023-2024 academic year. To collect data, the "Motives of Risk-Taking Scale for Adolescents,", "Emotion Regulation Scale for Adolescents,", "Subjective Well-Being Scale for Adolescents," and "Demographic Information Form" were used, and the data were collected through face-to-face pen-and-paper tests in schools. During the analysis of the data, independent samples t-test, simple and hierarchical regression analysis were used. It was found that the motives of risk-taking differ according to gender and socioeconomic status variables. It was observed that gender, internal functional emotion regulation, and external dysfunctional emotion regulation variables significantly predicted the irresponsible behavior motive of risk-taking, accounting for 22% of the total variance of these variables.