The effect of automatic negative thought in private sector employees on onthological wellness and hopelessness

A significant part of human life is spent in the role of employee within working life so work has a significant effect on the life of a person. Individuals with automatic negative thought may fall into hopelessness due to negative life satisfaction evaluation when they enter the working life. In the working life, which can significantly affect the psychology of the individual, many adverse situations can be seen in an employee such as decline in his or her functionality due to mental and physical discomfort, decrease in productivity, inability to fulfill assigned tasks or even leaving work or being fired if necessary measures are not taken by the organization and appropriate working conditions are not provided Negative automatic thoughts, which employees tell themselves under such circumstances, that are generally accepted as correct without being evaluated and/or analyzed by them can cause psychological problems in employees. In automatic thoughts, anxiety, anger, hopelessness, etc. and tendency to overgeneralize and exaggerate can be seen in employees depending on the wrong processing and evaluation of employee data. According to the results of the research, in individuals with negative automatic thoughts, the sub-items of life project are as follows; regret and nullity scores are high, actuation and hope scores are low. In individuals with negative automatic thoughts, the score of hopelessness is high. Hopelessness and life project sub-articles; the scores of regret and nullity are high, the scores of actuation and hope are low. In the ontological wellness consisting of emotional judgements where a person evaluates his or her life as a project made of past, future and present, the values of regret, actuation, nullity and hope are measured. During the beginning and ongoing process of depression, hopelessness, which is considered as a primary reason, can lead to the belief in employees that the problems will never be solved and that they will never be able to defeat their failures. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach enables an employee to cope with the emotions, thoughts and behaviors, which cause problems in his or her life, through behavior modification techniques used together with the techniques for changing inconsistent beliefs. In this study, it is aimed to reveal the importance of negative automatic thoughts on the life project and hopelessness levels of individuals by emphasizing the importance of psychological factors that may affect the productivity and functioning of employees. Key Words: Private sector, working life, automatic thoughts, ontological well-being, hopelessness.