Examination of hopelessness and emotion eegulation judicial cases of teenagers brought to child development unit

Examination Of Hopelessness and Emotion Eegulation Judicial Cases Of Teenagers Brought To Child Development Unit Objective: This study aims to hopelessness levels of judicial teenagers and their emotion regulation status. Material and Method: The study has been carried out on 76 judicial cases of teenagers (%94,7 male, %5,3 female) brought to Siverek State Hospital Department of Child Development Unit. Beck Hopelessness Scale, Emotion Regulation scale for Teenagers, and Personal Data form were used as data collection tool. Statistical analyses of the study which was carried out with quantitative research techniques were performed through SPSS 20.0 (IBM Inc, Chicago, IL, USA) program. Pearson Correlation Analysis is used to detect the relationship between scale points. In the whole study, type-I error value is taken as %5 and p<0, 05 value is considered statistically significant. Findings: While hopelessness points of the teenagers show significant difference according to their education level; it is determined that it doesn't show difference regarding to sex, place of birth, academic success, type of the crime claimed, its being alone or not in this crime, involvement of any crime before, having a unity of family or not, educational level of the parents, involvement of anyone from the family in a crime. While general emotion regulation points of teenagers differ significantly regarding to sex, place of birth, educational level of the teenager's mother; it is stated that the emotion regulation points don't differ regarding to their educational level of the teenager, its academic success, type of the crime claimed, being alone or not in the claimed crime, involvement of any crime before, having a unity of family, educational level of the father, involvement of anyone from the family in a crime. Result: The study had found no significant relationship between the overall score of emotion regulation and score of hopelessness. Key Word: Emotion regulation, judicial case, teenager, hopelessness.